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This species of bird uses trees for winter storage, which are called granary trees and may have up to 50,000 holes, each filled with an acorn. The acorn woodpeckerโ€™s main food source is insects, but acorns serve as key nutritional backup, allowing the birds to make it through the winter.

Trypophobia trigger alert

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[-] Baptidu@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago
[-] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Probably not. Itโ€™s not the holes that unsettle me, itโ€™s more the acorns looking like some nasty sort of maggots I think

[-] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

That's the general thinking behind what trypophobia really is. Not so much a phobia as a triggering of our innate disgust reaction to things that look similar to disease

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for teaching me a new word.

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