Eleodes dentipes
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Eleodes dentipes, the dentate stink beetle, is a species of desert stink beetle in the family Tenebrionidae. It is 16–28 mm in length and common in rotting wood and dry leaves. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Channel Islands National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San Francisco | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Sacramento | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | Los Angeles | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Dentate Stink Beetle sighting in Channel Islands National Park on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 102nd most-seen of the 131 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.
February–April, June and August
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Dentate Stink Beetle in Channel Islands National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May, July and September–January, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Dentate Stink Beetle sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Channel Islands National Park, in our data
Channel Islands National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Dentate Stink Beetle sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Eleodes
The closest relatives of the Dentate Stink Beetle that you can see in Channel Islands National Park (genus Eleodes, Desert Stink Beetles) are Eleodes acuticauda (about 10%), Woolly Darkling Beetle (about 10%) and Island Darkling Beetle (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Dentate Stink Beetle is recorded against all the insects logged in Channel Islands National Park (6 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.
