Asian Butterfly Discovered to Have Reached Hawaii–How Remains Mystery
A butterfly species that lives in Southeast Asia and some parts of Africa has been discovered on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.
If the butterfly arrived by migrating or via human transportation remains unknown.
The discovery was made by a man named Jim Snyder, who has been photographing and observing butterfly species since his childhood. When walking one day in March near the Waikiki library he noticed a unique set of butterflies that had different eye and wing colors compared to other species living in Hawaii. He also observed that they flew low to the ground– another unusual trait for the locality. There were only sixteen other species known to live on Hawaii’s islands prior to Snyder’s find.
