Box turtles can even eat mushrooms that would poison us. They may soak in shallow water occasionally. Females lay 3 to 8 eggs in early summer which hatch in a few months. The newborns may overwinter in the nest. Males and females can often be told apart by their eye color.
Males have red eyes, and females have yellow, brown, or marble eyes.
This is not always the case though so it is better to determine the sex by examining the shell and tail. Wild box turtles should not be kept confined in captivity. In most areas, it is illegal to remove a box turtle from the wild without permission. If you find one, leave it alone, unless it is in immediate danger from cars, predators, bulldozers, lawn mowers, etc. If a box turtle is relocated, it will do what it can to return to its home.