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

• 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 

Lighting

• 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

Myiasis

• 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