For the woodpecker everyone should be familiar with, after all, this is a kind of animal that everyone has boasted about from books since childhood, and its name is very loud - forest doctor!
The introduction of woodpeckers is also very positive: woodpeckers are famous forest birds, in addition to eliminating pests under the bark such as tianniu larvae, etc., their traces of chiseled wood can be used as an indicator of forest sanitary logging.
They feed on pests such as celestial cows, giddings, transfiguration moths, and bugs, and can eat about 1500 per day.
Due to the large amount of woodpecker food and wide range of activities, in the 13.3 hectares of forest, if a pair of woodpeckers inhabit, more than 90% of the gidding insects can be pecked in one winter!
The reason is very simple, this is related to the body structure of the woodpecker, the woodpecker tongue penetrates from the lower jaw, upwards around the back of the brain shell, in the front part of the head into the right nostril fixed, leaving only the left nostril to breathe.
When the base of the tongue slides outward from the jaw, this "bonfire knife device" allows the tongue to protrude out of the beak up to 12 cm long.
In addition, the tip of the tongue has a short hook, and the tongue mask is mucus, so the tongue can probe into the hole to catch various pests.
But woodpeckers can eat pests, so is the woodpecker really a dedicated doctor who treats trees as everyone imagines?
So let's reveal what woodpeckers really look like, everyone is an adult, and it's time to wake up from fairy tales!
It turns out that woodpeckers are not good birds, in fact, woodpeckers peck at trees every day to almost concussion, not just for good deeds, the most fundamental reason may be to catch some bugs to eat enough!
Sometimes even worse woodpeckers will hollow out trees in order to eat bugs hidden deep in the trunk, resulting in the young tree dying young!
It is even said that in order to get more food, woodpeckers will also specially place insect eggs on the tree, pull the bark out of the tree to make it flow sap, and attract other insects to lay eggs, which can be said to be a bird version of Huang Shiren!
And the woodpecker will have high requirements for its own nest, it is not the kind of bird that can live casually!
It will choose a tree at least 5 meters high, and then in the trunk, by its own mouth, drill a big hole, this time the woodpecker is comfortable in life, but for the tree, this is a sin!
In addition, there are other kinds of woodpeckers, they are not simply feeding on insect larvae, the Oak Woodpecker abundant in the Americas is the bully of birds, it will collect oak seeds throughout the day, and then stuff the oak trees into the trunk, not only large trees, oakpeckers will also make holes in telephone poles, fences, beams and other places, and even have all the human doors punched in holes and stuffed with acorns!
And even more exaggerated, in order to suck the fresh sap of the tree, the sap-sucking woodpecker will punch holes in the tree and lift the bark again and again!
Some woodpeckers are rogues among birds, and they will also specialize in preying on the young birds of other birds, which can be described as a presence that all birds have to scold, but among humans, it is praised!
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There have never been any absolute beneficial insects and pests in this world, only beneficial organisms and harmful organisms, and for nature itself, all living things will move towards a balanced process...
Wouldn't the woodpeckers who had been exposed to the truth in front of humans come to us to settle accounts?
But it also tells us the truth not to look at all the animals in the world from a completely imaginative point of view.
They survive in the ecology, nature has their unique survival skills, human morality, or do not forcibly kidnap those animals!