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Palpita gracilalis
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Bend National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Austin | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Dallas | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | San Antonio | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 4 | San Diego | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Palpita gracilalis sighting in Big Bend National Park on a given day, based on 14 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 193rd most-seen of the 329 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August and September
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Palpita gracilalis in Big Bend National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June–July, October and December–April, the lowest months. Those are among Big Bend National Park's wettest months, with about 50 mm of rain a month against 10 mm in April.
Between 10 pm and 1 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Palpita gracilalis sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
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 Palpita gracilalis sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Palpita gracilalis is recorded against all the insects logged in Big Bend National Park (14 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.
