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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
Couch’s Spadefoot Toad (Scaphiopus couchii)

Couch’s Spadefoot Toad (Scaphiopus couchii)

Mexican narrow-mouthed toad

Catan Projectile Point

El Mesteño Ranch Hidalgo County, Texas

El Mesteño Ranch -Hidalgo County, Texas

Common Pauraque

Gaillardia pulchella Foug.

Indian Blanket, Firewheel, Girasol Rojo

Talayote

Talayote Pods

Cricket

Cave or “Camel” Cricket

Coyote footprint

Coyote Track

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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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