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    Invertebrates as Food

    Medical Care

    • Boykin et al 2021 Using a Commercial Gut-loading Diet (Not mentioned in the Boykin abstract is that the mealworms were fasted for 18 hours prior to being transferred to the test diet (Fluker’s High-Calcium Mealworm Diet). During the study, the mealworms were not given any moisture source. They were maintained at 24.4 °C (75.9°F). (pers. comm.))

    • Finke et al 2004 Improving the Calcium Content of Crickets 

    • Dierenfeld 2008 Digestibility and Mineral Availability of Phoenix Worms

    Lighting

    • Atkinson 2010 Irrigant Options

    • Norton 2005 Chelonian Emergency Care

    Morbidity and Mortality

    • Schrader et al 2010) Diagnosis, Treatment, and Outcome of Eastern Box Turtles

    • Sack et al 2015 Morbidity and Mortality of Wild Turtles

    • Adamovicz et al 2018 Investigation of Multiple Mortality Events in Eastern Box Turtle 

    Myiasis

    • Acierno et al 2007 Effects of Ultraviolet Radiation on 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 Synthesis

    • Watson et al 2017 Characterizing the 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Status ... Eastern Box Turtles

    • Peters 1949 The Box Turtle as a Host for Dipterous Parasites

    • Knotek et al 2005 Fatal Myiasis in Hermann's Tortoise

    • McMullen 1939 Cutaneous Myiasis in a Box Turtle

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