Black Bears Eat * Horsetails & grasses * Berries: chokecherry, huckleberry, & buffaloberry are favorites forbs (broad-leaned plants) * Aquatic plants such as lilies * Elk & Moose calves, * Deer fawns * Ground squirrels & other small rodents * Ants, * Wasps, * Bees (adults & larvae) * Carrion