The diminutive bog turtle, a creature discovered for the world in Lancaster County in the 18th century, is facing yet another threat to its long precarious existence.
Already on the federal threatened list and endangered in Pennsylvania, the secretive bog turtles are now turning up dead, possibly victims of a new, mysterious disease.
With another suddenly occurring and heretofore unknown disease on the road to possibly wiping out most of Pennsylvania’s bat population within several years, fans of the bog turtle are fearful at what might be creeping through isolated turtle colonies in the eastern United States.
In recent months, dead and diseased bog turtles have shown up in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey…..
