![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/18t.jpg) Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) carrying fruits of beautyberry in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/17t.jpg) Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) with fruits on a sandy path in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2604/jpeg/21t.jpg) Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) with yaupon leaves in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2604/jpeg/24t.jpg) Yaupon berries cut by Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2604/jpeg/22t.jpg) Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) carrying yaupon leaves in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2604/jpeg/25t.jpg) Masses of Yaupon berries collected by Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3114/jpeg/16t.jpg) Nest of Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, March 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3114/jpeg/19t.jpg) Highway of Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, March 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3114/jpeg/15t.jpg) Burrow of a nest of Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, March 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3114/jpeg/14t.jpg) Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) with leaves and berries of Yaupon holly in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, March 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3114/jpeg/18t.jpg) Close-up of Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) with leaves of Yaupon holly in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, March 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3114/jpeg/17t.jpg) Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) carrying leaves of Yaupon holly in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, March 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2824/jpeg/17t.jpg) Sand mounds of Texas leaf cutting ants Atta texana at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, December 4, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2810/jpeg/18t.jpg) Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) excavating sand on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, November 5, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2810/jpeg/19t.jpg) Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) carrying sand bits on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, November 5, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2863/jpeg/27t.jpg) Green leaves of Yaupon holly collected by Texas leaf cutting ants (Atta texana) under oaks on Lake Somerville Trailway in area of Newman Bottom near Nails Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, February 2, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2604/jpeg/23t.jpg) Orange sand from a Texas leaf cutting ant burrow in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3089/jpeg/14t.jpg) Leaf cutter ants highway with berries and leaves of Yaupon holly in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, December 25, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2604/jpeg/18t.jpg) Burrow of harvester ants on a sandy trail in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2604/jpeg/20t.jpg) Harvester ants with plant seeds on a sandy trail in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2604/jpeg/19t.jpg) Harvester ants carrying plant seeds on a sandy trail in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2603/jpeg/11t.jpg) Woolly growth (gall) on a dry oak leaf in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2603/jpeg/12t.jpg) Orange woolly growth (gall) on a fallen oak leaf in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2810/jpeg/17t.jpg) Texas leaf cutting ant (Atta texana) on a sand mound on Richards Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Texas, November 5, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3089/jpeg/13t.jpg) Red berries and leaves of Yaupon holly cut by ants in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, December 25, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3385/jpeg/17t.jpg) Lace cactus (Echinocereus reichenbachii) with a mound of fire ants in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, April 15, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2012/1045/jpeg/10t.jpg) Sprouts of beautyberry on Lost Pines hiking trail in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, April 21, 2012
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2673/jpeg/27t.jpg) Animal s dropping with seeds of beautyberry(?) near a toad s pond at former Roosevelt Cutoff Trail in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, March 24, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/12t.jpg) Palafoxia hookeriana in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/03t.jpg) Palafoxia hookeriana in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/28t.jpg) Palafoxia rosea(?) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/15t.jpg) Flower of Palafoxia hookeriana in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/20t.jpg) Red milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/06t.jpg) Flower of Palafoxia hookeriana in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/23t.jpg) Blooming Palafoxia hookeriana in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/26t.jpg) Purple flower of Palafoxia hookeriana in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/16t.jpg) Bushy bluestem (Andropogon glomeratus) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/25t.jpg) Whorled milkweed (Asclepias verticillata)(?) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/27t.jpg) Berries of sumac Rhus lanceolata in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/22t.jpg) Tall goldenrod (Solidago altissima) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/12t.jpg) Silver bluestem (Bothriochloa laguroides) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/19t.jpg) Flowering spurge Euphorbia corollata in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/04t.jpg) Wild buckwheat (Eriogonum annuum) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/26t.jpg) Groundsel bush (seepwillow, Baccharis halimifolia) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/08t.jpg) White flowering spurge Euphorbia corollata in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/25t.jpg) Blooming wild buckwheat (Eriogonum annuum) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/24t.jpg) Western rough goldenrod (Solidago radula) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/02t.jpg) Pickering s dawnflower (Stylisma pickeringii var. pattersonii) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/20t.jpg) Seeds of bushy bluestem (Andropogon glomeratus) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/19t.jpg) Grass of bushy bluestem (Andropogon glomeratus) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/14t.jpg) Flower of plateau false foxglove (Agalinis edwardsiana) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/09t.jpg) Fragrant cudweed (sweet everlasting, Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/13t.jpg) Edward s Plateau false foxglove (Agalinis edwardsiana) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/17t.jpg) Seeds of grass bushy bluestem (Andropogon glomeratus) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/21t.jpg) Close up of seeds of bushy bluestem (Andropogon glomeratus) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3385/jpeg/16t.jpg) Fruits of blackberry in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, April 15, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3135/jpeg/22t.jpg) A nest of leaf-cutting ants with green and black fruits of evening primrose (Oenothera)(?) at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, April 20, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/15t.jpg) Close up of flower of plateau false foxglove (Agalinis edwardsiana) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/06t.jpg) Rosette lichen (Physcia) on sandstone of Lost Pines Overlook in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/08t.jpg) Aspicilia(?) lichen on a sandstone bench near Lost Pines Overlook in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3135/jpeg/21t.jpg) Unripe green and black fruits of evening primrose (Oenothera)(?) collected by leaf-cutting ants at Lake Somerville Trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, April 20, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/18t.jpg) Fluffy white seeds of groundsel bush (seepwillow, Baccharis halimifolia) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/24t.jpg) White flowers of wild buckwheat (Yerba colorado, Eriogonum annuum) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/09t.jpg) Ruffle lichen (Parmotrema) on a sandstone bench near Lost Pines Overlook in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/14t.jpg) Spikelets of split bluestem grass (feather beardgrass, Andropogon ternarius) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/10t.jpg) Lichen Diploschistes actinostomus on a sandstone bench near Lost Pines Overlook in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/11t.jpg) Fluffy seeds of split bluestem grass (feather beardgrass, Andropogon ternarius) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/13t.jpg) Fluffy seeds of split bluestem grass (feather beardgrass, Andropogon ternarius) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/05t.jpg) Yellow cobblestone lichen Acarospora socialis on sandstone of Lost Pines Overlook in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/04t.jpg) Faded yellow cobblestone lichen Acarospora socialis on sandstone of Lost Pines Overlook in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2651/jpeg/23t.jpg) Rustweed (juniper leaf, Polypremum procumbens) on a site of a recent burn in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, February 23, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/05t.jpg) Large clammyweed Polanisia erosa subsp. erosa in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/22t.jpg) Fruit head of Prairie gaillardia (Gaillardia aestivalis) with achenes in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/21t.jpg) Spherical fruit head of Prairie gaillardia (Gaillardia aestivalis) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/10t.jpg) Blooming prairie gaillardia (Gaillardia aestivalis) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/07t.jpg) Flower of prairie gaillardia (Gaillardia aestivalis) in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/03t.jpg) Stonewall rim-lichen (Lecanora muralis, Protoparmeliopsis muralis) with caloplaca on sandstone in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/23t.jpg) Spherical fruit heads of Prairie gaillardia (Gaillardia aestivalis) with achenes in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2577/jpeg/01t.jpg) Spherical fruit head of Prairie gaillardia (Gaillardia aestivalis) with achenes in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/07t.jpg) Firedot lichen Squamulea squamosa (Caloplaca squamosa) on sandstone of Lost Pines Overlook in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/01t.jpg) Stonewall rim-lichen (Lecanora muralis, Protoparmeliopsis muralis) on sandstone at Lost Pines Overlook in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/02t.jpg) Stonewall rim-lichen (Lecanora muralis, Protoparmeliopsis muralis) on sandstone bench at Lost Pines Overlook in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2576/jpeg/11t.jpg) Texture of stonewall rim-lichen (Lecanora muralis, Protoparmeliopsis muralis) on sandstone bench at Lost Pines Overlook in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 13, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2466/jpeg/14t.jpg) Various lichens on sandstone in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, March 14, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2603/jpeg/26t.jpg) Some insect larvae(?) under a pine log in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2604/jpeg/02t.jpg) White mycelium of a fungus under a pine log in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2603/jpeg/13t.jpg) Phellinus polypore mushroom on a fallen oak in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2603/jpeg/03t.jpg) Recently burnt pine forest in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2604/jpeg/13t.jpg) Fungus Chromelosporium carneum under a pine log in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2604/jpeg/09t.jpg) Conifer mazegill mushrooms from a dry pine log in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2603/jpeg/04t.jpg) Corticioid fungus Amaurodon viridis under a fallen oak in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2603/jpeg/05t.jpg) Amaurodon viridis and other corticioid fungus under a fallen oak in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2603/jpeg/02t.jpg) Close up of a puffball mushroom Lycoperdon marginatum in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2604/jpeg/14t.jpg) Details of fungus Chromelosporium carneum under a pine log in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2603/jpeg/14t.jpg) Close up of Phellinus polypore mushroom on a fallen oak in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2603/jpeg/07t.jpg) Close up of resupinate polypore mushroom under a pine log in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2603/jpeg/06t.jpg) Some white resupinate polypore mushroom under a pine log in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, November 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2381/jpeg/14t.jpg) Buchwaldoboletus(?) mushroom in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 14, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1286/jpeg/13t.jpg) Harmon Road in Bastrop State Park. Bastrop, Texas, October 5, 2013
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