1, the painted lady bird is omnivorous birds, but the year-round food is mainly insects, especially in the breeding season, most of which are agricultural and forestry pests, including locusts, toon weevils, pine caterpillars, tortoiseshells, Lepidoptera, the larvae of the Tennessee moths and other moths, etc., and the plant food is mainly seeds, fruits, grass seeds, wild fruits, strawberries and so on.

2, in the breeding season, the quail in order to feed the chicks, a large number of captured insects, in the non-breeding season, insects are gradually less, to a variety of plant fruits, weed seeds or young vegetables for food.