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Animal foods include ants, beetles, crickets and grasshoppers, bugs, cankerworms and other smooth caterpillars, caterpillars of gypsy moth and brown-tailed moth, aphids, miscellaneous other insects, and spiders [15,25].
Native to the Old World, the bird was first introduced into the United States about 1850 to combat cankerworms, and it rapidly became widespread. Aggressive as well as prolific, it has largely replaced many native birds in urban areas.
of its plumage, or its bold defence of its young, which I can attest from actual observation, but I must commend it for the benefit which it confers, in this part of the country, on the farmer, by destroying thousands of the destructive cankerworm.
 See also: Caterpillar, Finch, Bear
  
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