bears and stinging nettle

[MountainWalk]

ive seen bears walking through stinging nettle on my property before, so i know it doenst bother them, but do any of you guys know if bears eat the stuff? especially when its younger?

[HarborHunter3]

No idea but if they will eat battery acid, let bees sting them, drink a cooler of Rayonier it wouldn't suprise me. 

[Michelle_Nelson]

eat battery acid?

[HarborHunter3]

Yeah bears have ripped the tops off of batteries and ate the acid. That's an old story too. No car batteries that I'm aware of. lol He might have a stomach ache after that.

[boneaddict]

I think the term they will eat anything means they willl eat anything.

[billythekidrock]

I have found lots of bear crap with surveyors ribbon  and plastic from gas/oil jugs in it.

[boneaddict]

Yep, about 5 minutes after they eat it, they *censored* it out the other end.  It doesn't stay long in there.  Another vivid memory back in th eday as a kid, we put a fruit crate filled with pears out.  A bear came in and ate them and just aboutthe exact distance behind the crate was a pile of *censored* out, chewed pears.  In one end out the other.  Could have jsut re-used them I think. 

[Skyvalhunter]

Did you make pear butter with it Bone?

[boneaddict]

It needed one more refining.

[boneaddict]

Anyone remember the picture of the pilke of bear crap withthe wrist watch and candy bar wrapper in it....it was circulating as a joke when Treadwell got munched.   I suppose its not really funny, or wouldn't be for anybody BUT him.

[WDFW-SUX]

I suppose its not really funny

I actually still get a chuckle when I think about him

 

[HarborHunter3]

I've seen em when they eat apples and pears.

It's nice having an orchard on your property. 

Up in Alaska they go ofter quad seats. Something in the rubber or something. Bite marks and even chunks missing I guess.

[cohoho]

Stining nettles, heck they go through Alaskan Devils Club like pop corn at a movie theater....I've had them eat my duck tape off a tree stand plus some of the aluminum, eat a plastic bucket full of honey that was supposed to be dripping but they ate the wire holding the bucket, eat into a metal can of old bomb shelter candy, eat a trail camera, well lets just state----- their animals....  and the best to date, crush a 55 gallon barrel from the top down to about 3/4 down, and chewed the sides open, how strong would that have to be, it wasn't a cheap made barrel either...  The most determined, smart-thick headed animals out there -is my opinion.

Have you seen the video clip of a black bear in Yosemite, it figured out how to bend the window frame out of cars to get into a cooler and doritos!  I'll see if I can find it anywhere.

[HarborHunter3]

That would be a sweet vid to watch! Hope you can find it.

When the were building the Alaska pipeline my dad watched a trapped Barren Ground Grizzly take the back door off a bus with one swipe.

They can also delicately poke out the glass of a front windshield too. 

[billythekidrock]

Have you seen the video clip of a black bear in Yosemite, it figured out how to bend the window frame out of cars to get into a cooler and doritos!  I'll see if I can find it anywhere.

yea, I saw it awhile back. Pretty crazy.

[MountainWalk]

ok, i shall refine the question.. has anyone seen or heard of bears actively seeking stinging nettle?

[billythekidrock]

No.

[ICEMAN]

Up in Alaska they go ofter quad seats. Something in the rubber or something. Bite marks and even chunks missing I guess.

Maybe the bears like sweaty azz or corn or something?