The Hawaiian Islands are host to only two butterflies yet an amazing diversity of moths. The islands are situated 2000 miles from the nearest mainland. This extreme isolation has made it very difficult for organisms to reach Hawaii. However, those that made it to the islands rapidly speciated, resulting in hundreds of species of insects from only a few colonizations.

My web page introduces the work being done on the Lepidoptera (moths & butterflies) of Hawaii, and provides links to other web pages concerned with conservation, ecology and evolution of Hawaiian
flora and fauna.

Conservation
Biodiversity
Biogeography
Systematics
Ecology

Other links


Web page designed and created by Mandy L. Heddle