Bear caught on camera ripping window screen

IMMOKALEE Florida WBBH A mother bear and her two cubs made a visit to an Immokalee neighborhood this weekend and the encounter was all caught on camera Neighbors in the Arrowhead Reserve neighborhood say the bear family has become a regular sight but seeing them during the day was something new Video taken Saturday shows the bears wandering through yards and digging through trash on Bush Street West In another clip one of the cubs walks right up to a home and rips the screen off a window The woman who recorded the video advised Gulf Coast News she was about to take her two small children to get the mail when she looked outside and saw the bears She announced they ve been showing up more often as more homes go up nearby Another resident Sully Balderas revealed she was scrolling on Facebook when she saw the videos and realized they were taken right near her home My heart started pounding I was home alone with my kids Balderas explained And just to think I had my son come outside and throw trash in the bin FGCU biology professor Dr Nora Demers commented progress across Southwest Florida is pushing wildlife like bears closer to people The amount of advance that s happening in Southwest Florida is phenomenal Demers commented You ve got gated communities where they re putting the houses right up to the conservation areas because they re higher value there The Arrowhead Reserve group sits next to the CREW and Corkscrew Swamp sanctuaries key habitats for Florida black bears FWC reminds residents to secure trash cans bring pet food indoors and never approach or feed bears