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Alex Netherton
Hi gang; When I was working in southeast Georgia (US), I saw many female DBT’s looking for a place to lay her eggs. Happened about this time, or a little later; I suspect the person with the grumpy female has a gravid one, and needs to provide her with a nice substrate to lay her eggs. One female I saw near Jekyll IS. (a Carolina obviously) crawled up into a conference center onto the packed sand of a road, dug a hole, and proceeded to lay eggs. I think they prefer tight packed sand, as in salt marsh islands. This was on a marsh creek that varied in salinity from about 17ppt. to about 5 or 6 (when it rained). (Inshore waters are about 28ppt.) Many times on the causeway to Tybee Island GA. I saw them crushed. (No fences.) They seemed to be looking for the heavier sand of the road bed. They do not seem to like windblown or dune sand. On a hammock (marsh island) where we took classes, it was possible to find, at the right time of year, hundreds of them. Oh, about “why did the Terrapin cross the road?”, I just had to save that one. Someone has acid wit, and a finger on the pulse of US society! Right on! (Show my age.) Alex Netherton The Appalachian Naturalist Asheville, NC http://www.appalachian-naturalist.com
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