Toxomerus parvulus
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Cypress National Preserve | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miami | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Black-Backed Calligrapher sighting in Big Cypress National Preserve on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 220th most-seen of the 262 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
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Black-Backed Calligrapher in Big Cypress National Preserve on a given day, against under 5% in February, April–July and September–November, the lowest months. That is one of Big Cypress National Preserve's wettest months, with about 210 mm of rain against 40 mm in March.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Black-Backed Calligrapher sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Big Cypress National Preserve, in our data
Big Cypress National Preserve is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Black-Backed Calligrapher sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Toxomerus
The closest relatives of the Black-Backed Calligrapher that you can see in Big Cypress National Preserve (genus Toxomerus, Calligrapher Flies) are Florida Calligrapher (about 10%) and Thin-Lined Calligrapher (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-Backed Calligrapher is recorded against all the insects logged in Big Cypress National Preserve (5 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.
