Where do box turtles winter?
- Thread starter softtouch
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From the Maryland Zoo website...
http://www.marylandzoo.org/animals-conservation/reptiles/eastern-box-turtle/
"Box turtles hibernate through the winter. They take shelter by burrowing up to two feet deep in dirt, mud, stream bottoms, stump holes, or mammal burrows. A winter hibernation burrow is called a hibernacula. One or more box turtles may share the same hibernacula."
Turtle needs to be somewhere it can burrow.
http://www.marylandzoo.org/animals-conservation/reptiles/eastern-box-turtle/
"Box turtles hibernate through the winter. They take shelter by burrowing up to two feet deep in dirt, mud, stream bottoms, stump holes, or mammal burrows. A winter hibernation burrow is called a hibernacula. One or more box turtles may share the same hibernacula."
Turtle needs to be somewhere it can burrow.
Just bring it in the house and release it sometime in March.
PeoplesElbow
Well-Known Member
I find them under leaves in the spring all the time when I am raking them up. Leave him be, turtles have a territory that they know really well.
In a 2 foot deep window box? Remove it from the window box and leave it be.
intertidal
New Member
Loose brushpiles over soft soil with a high content of decaying leaves and brush/bark are the best overwinter habitat for box turtles. They bury themselves under the leaves and emerge in the Spring.
This is what I did.
Good on ya.