{"id":1160,"date":"2015-04-17T22:10:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T05:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T23:38:08","slug":"april-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=1160","title":{"rendered":"April 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html> <head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=iso-8859-1\"> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" style=\"display:none\"><!--P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} --><\/style>\n<p> <\/head> <body dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2015 April 17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Barb McGrenere writes:&nbsp; Late this afternoon (April&nbsp; 16), Mike and I went to the summit of Mount Douglas to look for butterflies.&nbsp; Flying and basking at the summit near the teacup were <strong>2 Grey Hairstreaks<\/strong>; several <strong>Propertius Duskywings<\/strong>; <strong>one Red Admiral<\/strong>; at least <strong>4 <\/strong><strong>California<\/strong><strong> Tortoiseshells<\/strong> chasing each other.&nbsp; On the summit near the towers were about <strong>4 Sara Orangetips<\/strong> and another <strong>2 Propertius Duskywings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Marie O&#8217;Shaughnessy writes: I thought you might like this one&#8230;taken at the top of Observatory Hill April 15.&nbsp; A lovely warm morning around 10 am.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"1200\" originalwidth=\"1102\" name=\"\" title=\"_MG_2451_03Copy.jpg\" height=\"641.1615245009074\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image553184d7b0945.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Female Propertius Duskywing <em>Erynnis propertius <\/em>(Lep.: Hesperiidae)<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Marie O&#8217;Shaughnessy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang sends a picture of a fly that she photographed at Gorge Park on April 14. <\/p>\n<p>The grey thorax with black markings, combined with the straight fourth vein, mark it as an anthomyiid.&nbsp; Annie describes it in her inimitable manner:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An itsy bitsy fly upon a wee, little daisy<\/p>\n<p>was sunning in a manner that I thought was rather lazy.<\/p>\n<p>My camera was ready though my eyes&nbsp;felt somewhat hazy<\/p>\n<p>but I got pics of the fly upon that wee, little daisy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"636\" originalwidth=\"640\" name=\"\" title=\"fly pang3.jpg\" height=\"585.12\" width=\"588.8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image553184d7b17a6.jpeg\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Fly <em>Anthomyia <\/em>sp. 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