This bright red bird is known to eat plenty of bees and wasps!

Male Summer Tanager

If you live in the southwestern, southern, or eastern U.S. and you see a bright red bird catching bees or wasps in midair, it is likely a male Summer Tanager. After grabbing one of these insects that most things try to avoid, the tanager will smash it against a branch and scrape the stinger off before eating the rest.

Also be alert for the female Summer Tanager, which is greenish-yellow. Tanagers migrate to Central and South America for the winter.

Female Summer Tanager