The magpie robin feeds mainly on insects. The common types of food eaten are golden tortoise beetle, ladybird beetle, spade beetle, walking insects, mayflies, crickets, floating dusters, ants, flies, wasps, pupae, and other insects such as Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Orthoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, Homoptera, Heteroptera, and other insects and insect larvae. It also eats other small invertebrates such as spiders, small snails, centipedes, and occasionally small vertebrates such as small frogs and plant fruits and seeds.