 Clutch sizes usually consist of four eggs but as many as six have been known to occur.Breeding success rate is between 0.3-1.8 young to maturity, eggs incubated by both parents.Freshwater mussels, fish, shrimp, freshwater crayfish, spiders, dragonfly nymphs, damselflies, praying mantis, grasshoppers, water beetles, lizards, young ducklings, young freshwater rat, and amphibians.