The pest: An Ornate box turtle, terrapene ornata, is eating sungold cherry tomatoes in a home vegetable garden Midwest USA

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Turtles eat plants as adults and live as long as 40-50 years

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Size: 3508px × 5276px
Location: columbia MO USA
Photo credit: © Gay Bumgarner / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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