June 2019 — One more reason to dislike 9-banded Armadillos, and yes I am guessing here, but it’s likely an armadillo got to this small turtle. Look around the edges where the shell was gnawed. Armadillos have 90-something teeth so I guess they could do it.
The University of Florida extension agency says armadillos will eat small vertebrates and their eggs. The shell was along my wooded path the armadillo’s usual path. It could be one of the hatchlings I found a few years ago.
Outside of my vegetable garden, where I have banked soil against the fence, has been a good spot for turtles to lay eggs. Sucks that twice so far something has dug up nests and eaten the eggs. I’ll surely blame the armadillos since around the garden back fence is its usual route.
Well that’s all for me, just a simple bucket to get things started for anyone who stops by with their nature observation. I could add more about armadillos and leprosy but I think that might be fake news. Anyways, we did not have a daily bucket yesterday, not gonna let 2 days go by -- see ya in the comments.