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Wild Texas!
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Summer Sunset
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Riding off into the sunset…
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Dark skies over El Mesteño Ranch
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Misty morning sendero
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Two Kings of Texas Ranches… Horse and Ford

The Texas Indigo Snake

Bobcat track

Bobcat Track

Mature Guajillo Shrub

The Plant LIfe Cycle of our Native Guajillo

Brown Tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi)

Texas Brown Tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi)

The Fringed Diving Beetle

The Purple Pleat Leaf

Chicle the Donkey

Chicle by Moonlight

Stenocereus thurberi

Organ Pipe Cactus or Pitahya (Stenocereus thurberi)

Rainbow Scarab

Rainbow Scarab or Rhinoceros Dung Beetle

Trapdoor Spider (Ummidia)

Trapdoor Spiders!

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  • “Mind-boggling:  95-day Emergence Cycle for the Mesoxaea texana  on the books for 2026 on the South Texas Sand Sheet!”
  • “Micrograph Photo Gallery of a female Mesoxaea texana”
  • “Mesoxaea texana and Protoxaea gloriosa found on Dr. Steve Bentsen’s Dos Venadas Ranch in June 2026!”
  • 2025 was a Banner Year for our Mesoxaea texana on the South Texas Sand Sheet in Puerto Rico, Texas!
  • “El Glorioso,” our Protoxaea gloriosa, is back on the South Texas Sand Sheet!
  • Lycus fernandezi – a species of net-winged beetle on the South Texas Sand Sheet.

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