Bog+turtle

 =**__//Bog Turtle //__** = (//Clemmys Muhlenbergii)//

//**__Listed__** // //**__Description__** // __**//Habitat //**__ __//**Niche **//__ **__//Re//__** __//**covery Plan **//__ __//**Reasons for being on the list **//__ __//**Life Span **//__ __//**Reproduction **//__ __//**Sources**//__
 * __The Bryan Rich & Cj Glenn __**
 * Threatened for both the Pennsylvania and United States list
 * //**__Size__**//
 * <span style="color: rgb(205,10,10); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4.5 of 4 1/2 inches long
 * //**__<span style="color: rgb(0,128,0);">General Description __**//
 * <span style="color: rgb(38,38,126); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bright yellow and/or orange patches on either side of head and neck.
 * <span style="color: rgb(38,38,126); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Insides of legs have an orange-red wash.
 * <span style="color: rgb(38,38,126); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Carapace (upper shell) is domed and somewhat rectangular with prominent rings of shell plates
 * <span style="color: rgb(38,38,126); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Typically black but is sometimes highlighted with chestnut sunburst patterns.
 * <span style="color: rgb(38,38,126); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The plastorn (under shell) is hing-less with a cream and black blotchy pattern.
 * <span style="color: rgb(38,38,126); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The males plastorn is slightly concave and the females is flat.
 * <span style="color: rgb(255,0,53); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Can be found in Eastern U.S., Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York, Tennessee, and Georgia.
 * <span style="color: rgb(255,0,53); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bog turtles enjoy cool, shallow, slow moving water, deep soft muck soils, wet meadows, boggy areas (BOG turtle) typically dominated by sphagnum moss
 * <span style="color: rgb(255,0,53); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Semi-aquatic
 * <span style="color: rgb(255,0,53); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Must have a fair amount of sunlight for basking and nesting
 * <span style="color: rgb(128,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bog turtles are categorized as herbivores
 * <span style="color: rgb(128,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They tend to eat what they can get but they prefer invertebrates such as slugs, worms, and insects. Bog turtles also enjoy seeds, plant leaves, and carrion.
 * <span style="color: rgb(64,64,64); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Invasive species, which create a threat to the bog turtle are being controlled.
 * <span style="color: rgb(64,64,64); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Farmers are to keep better control of their animals
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,128,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The population dropped 50% in two decades.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,128,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Captured and illegally traded.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,128,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Poachers
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,128,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Increase in non-native vegetation.
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,0,255);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bog turtles can live anywhere from 5 to 30 years or longer.
 * <span style="color: rgb(152,27,152); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lay anywhere from 1 to 6 eggs
 * <span style="color: rgb(152,27,152); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reach maturity as soon as age eight and as late as age eleven
 * <span style="color: rgb(152,27,152); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Male and female will mate April through June
 * <span style="color: rgb(152,27,152); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Females lay the eggs in June and July
 * <span style="color: rgb(152,27,152); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Eggs hatch in August and early September
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,128,128);">//"Bog// Turtle Slipping Away" []
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,128,128);">"Bog Turtle Fact Sheet NYS Department of environmental conservation" []
 * <span style="color: rgb(0,128,128);">"Bog Turtle" []