{"id":3885,"date":"2017-04-17T01:29:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T01:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2017-04-16T18:40:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T01:40:40","slug":"april-16-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/?p=3885","title":{"rendered":"April 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>2017 April 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Jeremy Tatum writes:&nbsp; I visited Bear Hill today, and I saw just one butterfly, but a welcome one.&nbsp; A  <strong>Western Brown Elfin <\/strong>&#8211; my fourth individual butterfly of the year, and my first non-Cabbage.&nbsp; Also on the hill, two  <strong><em>Epirrhoe plebeculata<\/em><\/strong>, and at the bottom of the hill, among a large growth of brambles, a cloud of many<em>  <\/em><em><strong>Mesoleuca gratulata<\/strong><\/em>.&nbsp; Gordon Hart had a look in Francis\/King Park, and also saw lots of  <strong><em>Mesoleuca gratulata<\/em><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>and a few <strong>  <em>Epirrhoe plebeculata<\/em><\/strong>, but no butterflies, and Ben van Drimmelen saw no butterflies at Anderson Park.&nbsp; Remember, all, I want to know what  <em>Epirrhoe plebeculata <\/em>lays its eggs on!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; Devon Parker found one <strong>Western Spring Azure<\/strong> in Uplands Park and one  <strong>Cabbage<\/strong> <strong>White<\/strong> on Denison Road.&nbsp;&nbsp; Annie Pang saw her first  <strong>Western Brown Elfin<\/strong> and a few <strong>Cabbage Whites<\/strong> at Gorge Park.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image002.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" originalheight=\"883\" originalwidth=\"1200\" name=\"\" title=\"W Spring Azure.JPG\" height=\"440.32266666666663\" width=\"598.4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/W-Spring-Azure.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Western Spring Azure <em>Celastrina echo <\/em>(Lep.: Lycaenidae)&nbsp; Devon Parker<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong>Annie Pang photographed a male mining bee <strong><em>Andrena  <\/em><\/strong><strong>sp. <\/strong>at Gorge Park Community Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" hasheight=\"true\" setwidth=\"552\" setheight=\"554\" style=\"width: 552px; height: 554px;\" originalheight=\"1010\" originalwidth=\"1007\" name=\"\" title=\"Andrena Annie.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicnhs.bc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Andrena-Annie.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"file:\/\/\/F:\/DOCUME%7E1\/tatum\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/msohtml1\/01\/clip_image004.jpg\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Andrena<\/em> sp. 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