termites eat wood for food.
termites
No, they peck wood/trees looking for insects.
Tapping on wood is how woodpeckers locate grubs and insects inside the wood. They will do this to just about any exposed wood. If they start boring into the wood after insects, you definitely have insects. Woodpeckers might also peck at the wood if they decide to bore out a nesting cavity.
By stripping chunks of bark from dead or dying trees, to get at the wood boring insects that are their primary food source.
They have a strong sharp bill for getting food (insects and their larvae) from decaying wood.
Lumber is another name for cut wood or trees. While some animals and insects eat bark or wood, human beings do not eat wood.
There are many different kinds of wood eating insects in the state of California. These insects can be found anywhere.
Worms cricets and other small insects
Pecks holes in trees and wood structures insearch of insects beneath the outer surface.
Termites are wood-eating insects and can be devastating to wood-framed houses.
By eating the wood.
to get at insects inside the wood