[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Green Herons! Nice, and a really nice pond!

Green Heron fishing with bread

I have a House or Purple Finch in my Spruce tree. I have not had a lot of problems with Japanese beetles and wondered...

Do finches eat japanese beetles?

According to the search results, finches are mentioned as one of the birds that eat Japanese beetles.

In the snippet from “What Do Finches Eat? "Do Finches Eat Fruits & Veggies? - Birds News", it is mentioned that finches eat aphids, asparagus beetle, caterpillars, Colorado potato beetles, crickets, cucumber beetles, flea beetles, grasshoppers,

Japanese beetle

, leafhoppers, leaf miners, Mexican bean beetle, moths, spruce budworm, and many more herbivorous insects and arthropods as part of their food.

Additionally, in the snippet from “Do Birds Eat Japanese Beetles”, it is mentioned that Finches are one of the bird species that eat Japanese beetles, along with other birds such as Cardinals, Meadowlarks, Catbirds, Sparrows, Blue Jays, Robins, Crows, Grackles, and Starlings.

House Finch

[Augie]

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a finch or any other kind of bird catch and eat a japanese beetle. If the doggone things taste like they smell I can’t imagine anything wanting to eat them.

That said, I’ve got a ton of finches that live around our property, and if they’ve learned to eat the stinking things it could explain why I’m no longer overrun with them.