Other bears get too heavy. Food - Bears eat virtually anything that is edible. They are omnivorous. They like tubers, bulbs, berries, nuts, young shoots, fruits, insects. It is the liking of honey and berries that gets the black bears in trouble with Florida farmers.
Black bears like to feed early in the morning or evening while it is cool.
During the day they rest in large circular beds of palmetto leaves and other vegetation which they use as resting sites. They leave scratch marks on trees to signal their presence to other bears and to keep them away. Winter Activity - Florida's black bears do not hibernate as bears do in the winter months up north. May. Baby bears are born at this time. Babies - Baby bears are called cubs and they are blind, hairless and very tiny at birth.