Junonia lavinia
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | El Palmar National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | El Impenetrable National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 3 | Iberá National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Main Ridge Forest Reserve | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 5 | Machalilla National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 6 | Everglades National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 7 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 8 | Carara National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 9 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 10 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 11 | Parque Natural Metropolitano | 🇵🇦 Panama |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rosario | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | Buenos Aires | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 3 | Montevideo | 🇺🇾 Uruguay | |
| 4 | Mendoza | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 5 | Asuncion | 🇵🇾 Paraguay | |
| 6 | Cordoba | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 7 | Lima | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 8 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 9 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 10 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Junonia lavinia sighting in Carara National Park on a given day, based on 8 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 49th most-seen of the 83 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 and July–August
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Junonia lavinia in Carara National Park on a given day, against under 5% in September to February, the lowest months.
Between noon and 3 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Junonia lavinia sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
8th of 11
Of the 11 parks where we can rate Junonia lavinia sightings, Carara National Park ranks 8th at about 10%. The best odds are in El Palmar National Park (Argentina, about 30%), El Impenetrable National Park (Argentina, about 30%) and Iberá National Park (Argentina, about 20%).
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Junonia lavinia that you can see in Carara National Park (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Banded Peacock (about 40%), Julia Heliconian (about 20%) and White Peacock (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Junonia lavinia is recorded against all the insects logged in Carara National Park (8 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.
