\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA 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 community 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 told 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 said they\u2019ve been showing up more often as more homes go up nearby.Another resident, Sully Balderas, said she was scrolling on Facebook when she saw the videos and realized they were taken right near her home.\u201cMy heart started pounding. I was home alone with my kids,\u201d Balderas said. \u201cAnd just to think, I had my son come outside and throw trash in the bin.\u201dFGCU biology professor Dr. Nora Demers said development across Southwest Florida is pushing wildlife like bears closer to people.\u201cThe amount of development that\u2019s happening in Southwest Florida is phenomenal,\u201d Demers said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got gated communities where they\u2019re putting the houses right up to the conservation areas because they\u2019re higher value there.\u201dThe Arrowhead Reserve community 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.DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tIMMOKALEE, Fla. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n A mother bear and her two cubs made a visit to an Immokalee neighborhood this weekend, and the encounter was all caught on camera.<\/p>\n Neighbors in the Arrowhead Reserve community say the bear family has become a regular sight, but seeing them during the day was something new.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The woman who recorded the video told 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 said they\u2019ve been showing up more often as more homes go up nearby.<\/p>\n Another resident, Sully Balderas, said she was scrolling on Facebook when she saw the videos and realized they were taken right near her home.<\/p>\n \u201cMy heart started pounding. I was home alone with my kids,\u201d Balderas said. \u201cAnd just to think, I had my son come outside and throw trash in the bin.\u201d<\/p>\n FGCU biology professor Dr. Nora Demers said development across Southwest Florida is pushing wildlife like bears closer to people.<\/p>\n \u201cThe amount of development that\u2019s happening in Southwest Florida is phenomenal,\u201d Demers said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got gated communities where they\u2019re putting the houses right up to the conservation areas because they\u2019re higher value there.\u201d<\/p>\n The Arrowhead Reserve community sits next to the CREW and Corkscrew Swamp sanctuaries, key habitats for Florida black bears.<\/p>\n FWC reminds residents to secure trash cans, bring pet food indoors, and never approach or feed bears.<\/p>\n DOWNLOAD<\/strong>\u202fthe free\u202fGulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mother bear and her two cubs made a visit to an Immokalee neighborhood this weekend, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":302256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[153552,2418,10809,34144,2556,171,153549,90159,316,110806,153550,18085,11449,159,50100,27029,67,132,68,989,313,837,153551],"class_list":{"0":"post-302255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-arrowhead-reserve-community","9":"tag-bear","10":"tag-bears","11":"tag-camera","12":"tag-development","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-fgcu","15":"tag-gulf-coast-news","16":"tag-home","17":"tag-immokalee","18":"tag-immokalee-neighborhood","19":"tag-late-news","20":"tag-resident","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-southwest-florida","23":"tag-trash","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-video","28":"tag-weather","29":"tag-wildlife","30":"tag-window-screen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115371772789485282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}