Or, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.
She’s been eating water lilies, or rather biting the leaves and buds off. I have plans for a turtle trap and she will be headed for the Arkansas River where the zoo guy assures me she will do fine.
Today I saw her out of the pool. “Aha!” thinks I, “Into a basket and on to the river!”
She’s laying eggs. I leave her to finish, and when I return she is of course back in the lily pool.
Tonight I went out with a flashlight, and she is biting them off like a kid in a candy store. She doesn’t eat the leaves or buds, she just bites the stems off.
Tomorrow I buy the PVC pipe and wire mesh for the live turtle trap.
Yeah, get that sucker outta there as soon as you can, or your plants are toast!
How close are you to the river? Cause if it happened once …
They eat everything. I have one. He ate all of the plants in his tank. I complained to the pet store guy, he said, “Use this leaf, they never eat it. Tastes bitter.” Damn turtle ate it. I put in plastic plants. Darned if he didn’t take a nip at those, too.
Now he lives with no plants in a barren wasteland, whereas his little brother, the snapper, gets plants in his tank, because he doesn’t eat them.
Get her out of your plants!
Miles and miles. There is a park with a lake closer, I believe I’ll take her there.
I was mainly wondering how she got into your pond in the first place.
Probably 20 years ago there was some HUGE rainfall/flooding in the Chicago area. Afterwards I was in my back yard - probably a mile or more from the nearest pond/stream, and was surprised to see a 6" slider strolling along.
There is a creek behind the garden that’s dried up for the Summer, and stock ponds nearby.