The Ladder-backed Woodpecker (Picoides scalaris) is a small woodpecker with a ladder-like pattern of black and white bars across its back. These small woodpeckers, 7.5 inches in length, eat caterpillars and the larvae of
wood-boring beetles for the most part, but they are not above feeding on the fruit of cacti. The males have a red cap. Females a black one. Male and female may be seen foraging together.
