 Its diet includes beetles, moths, flies, true bugs, Hymenoptera species, and grasshoppers and katydids.Little is known about its natural predators, but its remains were once documented within the pellet of a barn owl in Argentina.Its endoparasites (internal parasites) include cestodes in the genus "Vampirolepis"; nematodes of the genera "Allintoshius", "Capillaria"; and "Molostrongylus", and trematodes of the genera "Anenterotrema", "Ochoterenatrema", and "Urotrema".