No Southern House Mosquitoes on Hawaii Five-0's Na Keikia Kalaihaohia

Summary: Southern house mosquitoes round up no victims on Hawaii Five-0 2010 episode Na Keikia Kalaihaohia Jan. 19, 2018, even though they ruffle native birds.

male (left) and female (right) southern house mosquitoes (Culex quinquefasciatus), under synonym Culex fatigans Wiedemann (1828), illustrated by Ernst Lohse (1873-1930); E.A. Goeldi's Os Mosquitos no Pará (1905), Plate I, figures 4 and 5: Not in copyright, via Biodiversity Heritage Library

Southern house mosquitoes and four other naturalized mosquito genera are not causal agents of a malaria death in Hawaii Five-0 2010 active police procedural series episode Na Keikia Kalaihaohia Jan. 19, 2018.

Director Peter Weller and writers Eric Guggenheim and Peter Lenkov begin Season 8's 14th episode with a "pretty exotic way to go for a local boy." The series' 182nd episode overall, The Children of Kalaihaohia, calculates, concerning Hawaii-rare malaria, "So you could pretty much count the number of fatalities on one hand." The "Not many cases of malaria in this part of the world" derive from blood-sucking insects such as Southern house mosquitoes not domiciling natively in Hawaii.

An article in the Honolulu Gazette April 17, 1903, explained exotic mosquito establishments as ensuing from the ship Wellington's entry into Lahaina harbor, Maui, in 1826.

The Honolulu Gazette article fit common night mosquitoes (Culex pipiens) among first introduced makika ("mosquito") during William Richards' (Aug. 22, 1793-Nov. 7, 1847) Lahaina missionary years.

William Alexander's (April 2, 1833-Feb. 21, 1913) father-in-law Dwight Ballard (Sept. 29, 1798-Jan. 3, 1886) and Henry Peirce (Dec. 15, 1808-July 29, 1885) generated similar reminiscences. The Hawai'i Digital Newspaper Project has southern house mosquitoes (Culex quinquefasciatus) as Culicidae (from Latin culex, "gnat, midge" and Greek εἶδος, eîdos, "appearance") family introduced members. Southern house mosquitoes, identified in 1823 by Thomas Say (June 27, 1787-Oct. 10, 1834), include egg, larval, pupal and mature stages within completely metamorphosing life cycles.

Physically and sexually mature 10- to 19-day-old females journey through one- to 20-mile (1.61- to 32.19-kilometer) distribution ranges for avian and mammalian blood and for mates.

Avian and mammalian blood kept in six lower-lip, needle-like stylets and then in proboscis, thoracic and abdominal food channels kindle five 100-plus-egg rafts within 30-plus days.

Caterpillar-like, worm-like, jerking, thin-shelled wriggler larvae leave oval, semi-adhesive rafts after five- to eight-day temperatures at 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius) in nutrient-rich, standing waters. Broad-headed, two-eyed wrigglers manifest two bushy, short antennae; algae-, bacteria-, protozoan-manipulating, long-haired, yellow-filamented brushes; movable jaws; eight-segmented abdomens with air-breathing, buoyant, tube-like siphons and barrel-shaped saddles. Southern house mosquitoes, named scientifically Culex quinquefasciatus (from Latin culex, "midge"; quīnque, "five"; fasciātus, "banded, bundled") need four molts within four to 10 days to pupate.

Comma-shaped, thin-coated pupal southern house mosquitoes offer fused heads and thoraxes; downward-curved, eight-segmented abdomens; buoyant, side-located air spaces; paired air-breathing, buoyant, trumpet-shaped thoracic tubes; two-haired paddles.

Big-headed, compound-eyed, funnel-mouthed, short-necked adults with two female fine-haired or two male bushy-haired sensory antennae pierce 36-hour-old pupal backs at 80.6 degrees Fahrenheit (27 degrees Celsius).

Brown, 0.156- to 0.167-inch- (3.96- to 4.25-millimeter-) long adults queue up 13-segmented antennae; triangle-shaped thoraxes; two scale-edged, thin wings with scale-covered veins; six five-jointed, two-clawed legs. They release surface air into interior tubes through two paired, side-spaced spiracles that eight pairs on long, point-tipped, tube-like abdomens with hair-like, scaly, thread-like surfaces reinforce. Southern house mosquitoes sustain 1,000 wing movements per second even as low-toned adult males, with seven- to 10-day survival rates, seek high-toned moves of mating-motivated females.

Virus-transmitting southern house mosquitoes and four other introduced makika genera terminated many Hawaiian low-altitude native birds even though they trouble Hawaii Five-0 task force members once.

Hawaii Five-0 Task Force Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) confronts mortician Curtis Rice (Walter S. Gaines) at Roseland Mortuary about the exhumed body of Travis Hinkley, a diamond mule and malaria victim, in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0, season 8, episode 14, Na Keikia Kalaihaohia (The Children of Kalaihaohia): CBS Hawaii Five-0 episode 8.14 promotional photo, via SpoilerTV Jan. 19, 2018

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

male (left) and female (right) southern house mosquitoes (Culex quinquifasciatus), under synonym Culex fatigans Wiedemann (1828), illustrated by Ernst Lohse (1873-1930); E.A. Goeldi's Os Mosquitos no Pará (1905), Plate I, figures 4 and 5: Not in copyright, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8677823

Hawaii Five-0 Task Force Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) confronts mortician Curtis Rice (Walter S. Gaines) at Roseland Mortuary about the exhumed body of Travis Hinkley, a diamond mule and malaria victim, in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0, season 8, episode 14, Na Keikia Kalaihaohia (The Children of Kalaihaohia): CBS Hawaii Five-0 episode 8.14 promotional photo, via SpoilerTV Jan. 19, 2018, @ https://www.spoilertv.com/2018/01/hawaii-five-0-episode-814-na-keiki.html

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