Pheidole hyatti
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Pheidole hyatti is a species of big-headed ant native to the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Guatemala, invasive in Hawaii, and possibly present in Panama, Bolivia, and Argentina. 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 | Los Angeles | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Hyatt's Big-Headed Ant 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.
November to April
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Hyatt's Big-Headed Ant in Channel Islands National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May to October, the lowest months. Those are among Channel Islands National Park's wettest months, with about 45 mm of rain a month against almost none in July.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Hyatt's Big-Headed Ant 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 Hyatt's Big-Headed Ant sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Formicidae
The closest relatives of the Hyatt's Big-Headed Ant that you can see in Channel Islands National Park (family Formicidae, Ants) are Formica moki (about 10%), Argentine Ant (about 10%) and Bicolored Pyramid Ant (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Hyatt's Big-Headed Ant 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.
