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Common Pauraque

Cricket

Cave or “Camel” Cricket

Coyote footprint

Coyote Track

Texas Spiny Lizard

Texas Spiny Lizard

Red Velvet Mite

Red Velvet Mite

Texas Brown Tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi)

Texas Brown Tarantula

Western Diamondback Rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox)

Western Diamondback Rattlesnake

Desert Cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii)

Desert Cottontail

Texas Tortoise

Texas Tortoise

Snake Track

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“El Glorioso,” our Protoxaea gloriosa, is back on the South Texas Sand Sheet!
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“El Guapo,” our rare Mesoxaea texana, catching some Z’s on the South Texas Sand Sheet!
Mesoxaea texana update from the South Texas Sand Sheet, and guess what? The Protoxaea gloriosa are back!!!!!!!
“Male Mesoxaea texana on the South Texas Sand Sheet”

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