Cicindela ocellata
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Bend National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Ocellated Tiger Beetle sighting in Big Bend National Park on a given day, based on 25 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 76th most-seen of the 329 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and June
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report an Ocellated Tiger Beetle in Big Bend National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–February and August, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Ocellated Tiger Beetle sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Big Bend National Park, in our data
Big Bend National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Ocellated Tiger Beetle sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Coleoptera
The closest relatives of the Ocellated Tiger Beetle that you can see in Big Bend National Park (order Coleoptera, Beetles) are Eleodes spinipes (about 20%), Convergent Lady Beetle (about 20%) and Black-Striped Blister Beetle (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Ocellated Tiger Beetle is recorded against all the insects logged in Big Bend National Park (25 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
