Box Turtle

• Box turtles have a hinged plastron that allows the box turtle to close up its shell almost completely.

• Males tend to be a bit larger than the females and have a concave plastron.

• Florida has 4 species of box turtle, the Florida box turtle, eastern box turtle, gulf coast box turtle and three- toed box turtle.

• They have a home range of 750 foot diameter or less of which the primarily stay.

• Feed on snails, insects, berries, fungi, slugs, worms, roots, flowers, fish, frogs, and will feed on carrion!

• females nest and lay egg May through July

• Please never collect animals from the wild and never remove a box turtle from their home range.