Flesh Eating Beetles Clean a Snapping Turtle Shell! #flesheatingbeetles #snappingturtle | Fishin’ with Tate

Update on the ancient snapping turtle that was admitted last April after being found with a crushed shell likely due to a dock post coming down on her while she was waking up from hibernation. Thankfully her rescuer knew to get her to a wildlife rehabilitator immediately, and our team found she had a fractured and missing pieces of shell, tissue damage, and fractured scapula. After a year of wound management, antibiotics, beeswax (covered and protected the wound but allowed her to go in the wate