What does a scarlet tanager eat?
The scarlet tanager's diet is mainly composed of insects in their adult stage: caterpillars, moths, bugs, flies, wasps, grasshoppers, cockroaches, beetles, dragonflies, ants, spiders, mites. They also supplement their food intake with berries and small fruits (berries of poison ivy, elderberry, dogwood, grapes, blueberries, hackberries, black cherries, blackberries, apples, bananas and oranges).