Corey

__** Blanding's Turtle///Emydoidea blandingii// **__


 * __Natural Habitat:__** Shallow, quiet waters such as ponds, swamps, weedy marshes, sloughs, and backwaters of lakes.


 * __Biotic Factors:__** Trees, grass, water plants, other wildlife.


 * __Abiotic Factors:__** Wildfires, roads, loss of wetlands.


 * __Niche:__** It is a medium sized turtle with a diet that consists of mostly underwater crusteceans, snails, and insects. They will reach a sexual maturity at the age of 15-20. Eggs are eaten by predators such as foxes, skunks, and crows and when they are young will be hunted by racoons, snakes, birds, and fish.