The jay’s diet consists of a wide variety of food sources; during summer, the species catches insects, spiders, and worms, while in autumn and winter, it consumes acorns, nuts, seeds, and berries, and occasionally captures small lizards or nestlings of other birds. The species forages for food on the ground and in trees, using its beak to break open hard foods, and its diet includes acorns, nuts, seeds, insects, spiders, berries, coniferous cones, and plants. The jay makes large stores of acorns for winter. The daily food requirement is from 30 grams to 60 grams. Young jays consume invertebrates, including beetles, flies, Hymenoptera, butterflies, water bugs, ribbon worms, mollusks, polychaetes, bedbugs, Orthoptera, dragonflies, and stoneflies.