1. Alderflies are brownish and rather stout, caddisfly -like insects, and are abundant near water in the early summer

2. Other parasites of the Wood Turtle include trematodes, an acanthocephalan, caddisfly larvae (an epibiont), and the flesh fly, Sarcophagus spp., which may parasitize eggs and hatchlings (Foscarini, 1994; Walde, 1998; Smith, 2002).