Up until the fall of 2014,  this snorkeler/photographer had never seen a Blacklip Butterflyfish on Maui.  But the summer of 2014 saw a recruitment that boggled some underwater lovers’ minds.  Blacklips could be seen aggragating in the thousands at the edge of Molokini and in the hundreds at Ulua and Wailea beaches.  It can be seen feeding on coral, zooplankton, hydroids and algae and is often swimming high up in the water column alongside reefs and coral ledges.