North American Box Turtles are opportunists. In the wild a box turtle will eat a wide variety of food. ... Some of the "animal" matter they eat in the wild includes: slugs, snails, worms, grubs, caterpillars, beetles, pill bugs, sow bugs, centipedes, crickets, grasshoppers, spiders, flies, crawfish and carrion.

Can turtles eat pill bugs?

In general, turtles prefer live food. In the wild, they like to hunt and bring home live worms, snails, roly poly bugs and creepy crawlies and all taste delicious to a turtle.

What is a box turtle's favorite food?

It may take a couple months to find their favorite foods. Generally most of a box turtle's diet should be animal matter. This can include anything from dog food to crickets, however, they generally like live insects and worms. The rest of their diet should be mostly leafy greens and some fruits.