Chloroclysta siterata
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Chloroclysta siterata, the red-green carpet, is a moth in the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1767. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snowdonia National Park | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 2 | Cairngorms National Park | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 3 | Bavarian Forest National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 4 | Pyrénées National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 5 | Wadden Sea National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liverpool | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 2 | London | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 3 | Birmingham | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 4 | Helsinki | 🇫🇮 Finland | |
| 5 | Manchester | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 6 | Berlin | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 7 | Hamburg | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 8 | Prague | 🇨🇿 Czechia | |
| 9 | Munich | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 10 | Porto | 🇵🇹 Portugal |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red-Green Carpet sighting in Cairngorms National Park on a given day, based on 16 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 104th most-seen of the 300 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Red-Green Carpet in Cairngorms National Park on a given day, against under 5% in July–August and October–March, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red-Green Carpet sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 5
Of the 5 parks where we can rate Red-Green Carpet sightings, Cairngorms National Park ranks 2nd at about 10%. The best odds are in Snowdonia National Park (United Kingdom, about 20%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-Green Carpet is recorded against all the insects logged in Cairngorms National Park (16 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.
