Macy Ledbetter, of Spring Creek Outdoors LLC, says Mesquite beans or “hot beans” are Mother Nature’s gift!
Mesquite beans are incredibly beneficial to most wildlife species in the hot Texas summer months. The beans, once brown and dried, are 13% crude protein and provide valuable sugar and starch sources during the stressful summer months.
Deer readily consume the beans once they dry and turn brown and indicate seeds are mature. Quail, turkey and songbirds relish the hard seeds when most other seeds are absent from the landscape.
Mesquite, especially mature mesquite trees, are incredibly valuable on the landscape and should be protected at all costs. The quantity of mesquite beans is a good indicator that drought conditions because they fluctuate depending on rainfall and Mother Nature provides for the wildlife by increasing bean production as times get hard for the wildlife.
