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Shrine for the Desert Box Turtle

August 19, 2025
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Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Shrine for the Desert Box Turtle
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The better common name for Terrapene ornata luteola is the ornate box turtle. The name desert box turtle is old like me….not Miocene old…maybe early Holocene.
Hey, I recently read some nice essays about shrines in the borderlands written by the Tucson desert rat and artist Linda Victoria. Below is a link to her writing.
https://substack.com/@lacorua

The photos are mine. Oh, and I’ve talked about box turtles before, so here is a link to another episode:

Turtles, Dogs, Plants

 


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desert box turtle,   Growing Native,   KXCI Community Radio,   Petey Mesquitey,   Terrapene ornata luteola,  

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