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Hey, Isn't This A Wood Turtle?
OldTime
Jun 21, 2007 06:24 PM
Replies (4)
kensopher
Jun 23, 2007 02:11 PM
Yes.
OldTime
Jun 23, 2007 07:42 PM
Well . . . do wood turtles hang out in ponds? I never knew that.
kensopher
Jun 24, 2007 04:42 AM
I'm sorry for the short answer last time...I was aggravated about seeing a Wood turtle in a trap. I absolutely love Wood turtles.
Wood turtles will show up just about anywhere. They can wander quite a bit during the right weather, and no habitat seems off limits except for very deep water. Several gentlemen from the famed New York Herp. Society of decades ago wrote about finding Wood turtles buried in sphagnum bogs along with Spotted and Bog turtles!
It's kind of ironic...this person is marketing a trap to help save the fish in your pond from hungry turtles. A Wood turtle is the least likely of any aquatic turtle in its range to eat a fish. They simply can't catch them.
Cheers
OldTime
Jun 24, 2007 08:54 AM
Yes, that was my point . . . I mean I knew it was a wood turtle but I just thought it was bizarre that it was used as an example of a fish eating menace and I thought it was very disturbing to see it in that trap. Just something troubling that caught my attention.
