Housing Painted Turtles. Since painted turtles are aquatic turtles, they will spend the majority of their time swimming and ...

The red-eared slider and the painted turtle are both fascinating turtles which are popular pets around the world, with the painted turtle being second in popularity only to the red-eared slider. If ...

There are four kinds of North American painted turtles (the eastern, midland, southern and western). My photo here is of a southern painted turtle. It is the only North American painted turtle to ...

The amazingly adaptable painted turtle (in several subspecies) is the most widespread native turtle of North America. It ranges in freshwaters from southern Canada to northern Mexico, and from the ...

Painted turtles, Chrysemys picta ... Today, four subspecies are recognized: eastern; midland; southern; and western. The western subspecies is west of the Mississippi in the Great Plains and ...

She was an Eastern painted turtle (Chrysemys picta), this much was easily known. They’re fairly common around low, wet areas in southern Maine up through the Midcoast, and inland to about the ...

While painted turtles are a native species ... The shell is green and black and tends to get darker with age. Native to the southern Midwest from Texas north to southern Ohio and West Virginia ...

Ken “Husker” O’Malley proudly emailed this photo of his daughter with a western painted turtle from a northern ... A: Because perch fishing in southern Lake Michigan is so variable, very ...

At that point it could be too late.” Louisiana law currently allows holders of a reptile-and-amphibian-collection license to take and sell unlimited numbers of common snapping turtles, southern ...

Biologists have been trapping turtles in southern areas of New Hampshire this ... spotted turtles are threatened and the snapping turtle, the painted turtle and the common musk turtle are ...

The western painted turtle is a blue-list species, meaning its habitats are at risk. Predation and habitat loss from human activity has specifically impacted the southern Interior population for ...