Robins are very welcome in residential yards and gardens as part of nature's pest patrol. Summers their diet consists primarily of animal protein and they eat prodigious numbers of plant pests such as:
Lunch For Robins | ||
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Asparagus beetles | Cabbage loopers | Leafminers |
Colorado potato beetles | Caterpillars | Millipedes |
Dung beetles | Centipedes | Sowbugs |
Mexican bean beetles | Cutworms | True bugs |
Japanese beetles | Flies | Termites |
Ground beetles | Grubs | Weevils |