Earth and Space News: Kamehameha Butterflies Perhaps Are on Magnum's Say Hello to Your Past

Summary: Kamehameha butterflies perhaps are on Magnum’s Say Hello to Your Past Apr. 10, 2020, as wooded habitats around Robin’s Nest are what they appreciate.

Kamehameha butterfly (Vanessa tameamea) is one of only two endemic Hawaiian butterflies; Jan. 11, 2002, photo by William Hartgroves, courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Kamehameha butterflies perhaps are on Magnum’s Say Hello to Your Past crime action drama television series episode Apr. 10, 2020, as wooded habitats around Magnum’s Robin’s Nest residence are what they appreciate.

Director Avi Youabian and writer Joe Gazzam brandish the royal namesake of the endemic (among one's own people, from Greek ἐν, "in" and δῆμος, "people") butterfly. Season Two’s 15th episode, series’ 35th episode overall, considers the skirt-chasing husband of Robin’s Nest curator Teuila Tuileta (Amy Hill), called Kumu (from Hawaiian kumu, “teacher”). Kumu describes her husband, dead for 10 years, as the love of her life in the first season’s 14th episode, I, the Deceased, Jan. 28, 2019.

Kumu exposes, to suspected wife-killer Milo Rivers (Dohn Norwood), less extollable examples of her husband enumerating Hawaiian royalty among his ancestors and enjoying an extramarital affair.

The last Hawaiian king, Kamehameha V (Dec. 11, 1830-Dec. 11, 1872), perhaps fathered Keanolani (July 7, 1847-June 30, 1902), mother of three sons and three daughters.

Four-stage life cycles garner kamehameha (from same-spelled Hawaiian, “one set apart”) butterflies as mature forms generated from chrysalises (from Greek χρυσός, “gold”) from caterpillars from eggs. One brown-white to gold, 0.04-inch (1-millimeter) diameter, pinhead-sized egg for each host leaf lower- or upper-side hatches first-instar (from same-spelled Latin, “likeness”) caterpillars within six days. Kamehameha butterflies, lepelepe-o-Hina and pulelehua (from Hawaiian lepelepe-o-Hina, "[goddess] Hina's fringewing" and pulelehua, “butterfly”) locally, issue 20 to 300 transparent eggs, during 30- to 35-day lifespans. Female mated kamehameha butterflies, pulelehua (from Hawaiian pulelehua, “butterfly”) locally, issue 20 to 300 transparent eggs, whose number ambient temperature influences, during 30- to 35-day lifespans.

Larval stages of kamehameha butterflies, Vanessa tameamea (from Greek φαίνω, "I [life-generating deity Φάνης, “Phanes”] reveal" and Hawaiian variant of kamehameha) scientifically, journey through five-instar lifespans.

Forty-four- to 99-day lifespans kindle black-headed, gray-bodied, sparsely long-haired, 0.04- to 0.12-inch- (1- to 3-millimeter-) long hatchlings, with black, green-white, yellow-spined green bodies within two days.

First-instar hatchling larvae, like 0.08-plus-inch- (2-plus-millimeter-) long second-instar, 0.19-plus-inch (5-plus-millimeter) third-instar, 0.39-plus-inch (10-plus-millimeter) fourth-instar and 0.79-plus-inch (20-plus-millimeter) fifth-instar caterpillars, live in host-plant, leaf-sliced, leaf-rolled, self-made tents. Black- or black-purple-bodied second- through fourth-instar caterpillars manifest black or brown, bluntly short-spined head capsules; green-white or yellow mottling; and protruding, soft abdominal and thoracic spines. Fifth-instar caterpillars net heart-shaped head capsules with short, white-tipped spines; and bright-green or brown-purple yellow-side-striped bodies with black- and red-branched spines; and red back-running triangular stripes.

Fifth-instar caterpillars organize branch-hanging, thick-padded silk for hanging upside-down in brown, brown-red, brown-white chrysalises whose opening within 10 to 11 days offers Hawaiian islanders kamehameha butterflies.

The Nymphalidae (from Greek νύμφη, "nymph" and εἶδος, "appearance") brush-footed family member, profiled by Johann von Eshscholtz (Nov. 1, 1793-May 7, 1831), pursues rapid-flying, unpredictable patterns.

Black- and brown-marked, orange-bodied females with white-patched wingtips and males with all or some orange-patched wingtips respectively queue around Acacia koa tree-sap fluxes and larval-host nectars. The state insect since Apr. 23, 2009, relishes 'ākōlea (Boehmeria grandis), māmaki (Pipturus albidus), ma'oloa (Neraudia), olōna (Touchardia latifolia) and ōpuhe (Urera glabra) host-plant floral nectars. The Urticaceae (from Latin urtica, "nettle" and -āceae, "resembling") family-sipping, gulch- and stream-seeking settler of upland and valley woodlands suffers from predatory ants, birds and wasps.

Talismanic Kamehameha butterflies truly, but Kumu’s transgressing husband unlikely, transmit respective wildlife traditions and genetic transfusions from the Kamehameha Hawaiian royal house (May 1795-Feb. 3, 1874).

Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks) and Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez) track a killer to Second Wind, a boat docked at the Marina, in Magnum P.I.'s Say Hello to Your Past (season 2 episode 15): What2Vue @What2Vue, via Twitter April 8, 2020

Acknowledgment

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

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