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The Butterfly Big Year

Robert Michael Pyle, a veteran Orion columnist, hung up his word processor at the end of 2007 and set out in his trusty 1982 Honda, known as Powdermilk, to find as many American and Canadian butterfly species as he could in a single year. To keep Orion abreast, Bob promised to mail us tidbits from the trail and occasionally give us a call. Twice a month throughout 2008, we post Bob's notes from the road. His is a journal unlike anything else you've seen online.

Some Photos

August 31, 2008

Along the Road

The three photos below are by Janet Chu.


Bob and Dr. Boyce Drummond at the Bucksnort Saloon, Sphinx Park, Colorado.


Mead’s Wood Nymph, Deckers, Colorado

The photo below is by Jim Wiker:

Hunting pearly eyes and lacewing skippers deep in the giant canebrakes, near the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Temperature and humidity both in high nineties. This is also where I picked up a few dozen chiggers.

And the photo below is by Boyce A. Drummond

Pawnee montane skipper (Hesperia leonardus montana) on gayfeather (Liatris punctata) that Bob saw in Trumbull Colorado with Boyce Drummond on September 1, 2008.

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Robert Michael Pyle won the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award....


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