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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
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!

The Pencil Cactus

Greater Roadrunner

Northern Bobwhite

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  • 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.
  • Night Skies Deep in the Heart of West Texas & the South Texas Sand Sheet
  • “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!!!!!!!

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