Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year
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Part road-trip tale, part travelogue of lost and found landscapes, all good-natured natural history, Mariposa Road tracks Bob Pyle’s journey across the United States as he races against the calendar in his search for as many of the 800 American butterflies as he can find. Like Pyle’s classic Chasing Monarchs, Mariposa Road recounts his adventures, high and low, in tracking down butterflies in his own low-tech, individual way. Accompanied by Marsha, his cottonwood-limb butterfly net; Powdermilk, his 1982 Honda Civic with 345,000 miles on the odometer; and the small Leitz binoculars he has carried for more than thirty years, Bob ventured out in a series of remarkable trips from his Northwest home. From the California coastline in company with overwintering monarchs to the Far Northern tundra in pursuit of mysterious sulphurs and arctics; from the zebras and daggerwings of the Everglades to the leafwings, bluewings, and border rarities of the lower Rio Grande; from Graceland to ranchland and Kauai to Key West, these intimate encounters with the land, its people, and its fading fauna are wholly original. At turns whimsical, witty, informative, and inspirational, Mariposa Road is an extraordinary journey of discovery that leads the reader ever farther into butterfly country and deeper into the heart of the naturalist.
Foreword: Why a Butterfly Big Year?Ray One Cabbages and Kings1 Something Nice in the Woodshed 32 A Big Blow 53 Talk to Me of Mendocino 94 Not Too Mediocre Monarchs 145 Bixby Creek and Beyond 216 Ventura Highway 287 Protecting Our Borders 358 The Crows of Capistrano 44Ray Two East to Atala1 Stuck in Lodi Again 532 Life Valley 583 Oil Caps and Crawdads 624 On to Sanibel 695 The Blue Frog 736 The Crooked Way to Kissimmee 817 Easter with Andy 898 Beach Lady Day 979 Lost and Found 10510 April Fool 11011 Travels in Georgia 11412 Going to Graceland 12113 Delta Blues 12614 High Points and Low 13215 Descent into Hope 13716 From Hope to Hell 14417 Twenty-six Miles, Take One 15318 California Blues 15619 Double Scotch on the Rocks 163Ray Three Hunting for Hairstreaks I1 Obscura 1712 hesseli 1763 perplexa 184Ray Four Hunting for Hairstreaks II1 hermes 1952 thornei 1993 avalona, Take Two 203Ray Five North to Alaska1 Murphy Dome Day 2132 Eagle Summit 2203 Over Atigun 2284 Down the Dalton 2365 Arctic Solstice 241Ray Six Land O'Lincoln (Wending with Wiker)1 Baltimore at Last 2492 Frit City 2543 Garden Party of the Goddesses 259Ray Seven Yosemite Run1 Leona 2672 Fandango 2753 Tioga 2794 McCloud 286Ray Eight Colorado Kid1 UP to Uncompahgre 2912 Gothic Tale 2973 Deep Purple 303Ray Nine Close to Home1 Olympica Arctica 3112 Dumpster Dive 3163 Astarte Arising 3214 Over the Mistletoe 327Ray Ten To Kingdom Come and Back1 Lochsa Road 3352 Christina 3413 Nokomis 3464 Down East for Coppers 3525 Dukes Up! 3566 Oh, Oh, Diana 3627 Majestic, Lovely, and Beauty 3698 Wake Up, Little Susie 3759 A Pink Sphinx 38110 The Ghost of KB 388Ray Eleven East of the Pecos1 Great White 3932 Carole, How Could You? 3983 Havasu-Gila 4044 Have Some Madera, Minerva? 4115 Terloot and Geronimo 4176 The Red Satyr 4237 Floyd, June, and Ben 4308 By-Catch 4369 Carolina in the Diner 44110 On a Mission 44411 The Bee Caves 44912 Rio Grande Sur 45513 Bog Hopper 460Ray Twelve Back and Forth1 Tejas Thanksgiving 4732 Laguna in Winter 482Ray Thirteen Kauai Blues1 Kahili 4912 Koke'e 4973 Kailua 503Ray Fourteen Keys to the Highway1 More Purple 5132 Miami Blue 5193 The Last Butterfly 5254 Home 534Afterword Coulda Done Better, But I Don't Mind 537Appendix Statistics and Species Tally 544Acknowledgments 556
