Cyrtacanthacris tatarica
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Cyrtacanthacris tatarica, the brown-spotted locust, is a species of bird grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is found in the Afrotropics and Indomalaya. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nairobi National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 2 | Ngorongoro Conservation Area | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 3 | Serengeti National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 4 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 2 | Ho Chi Minh City | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 3 | Coimbatore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Dhaka | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | |
| 5 | Bengaluru | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Hyderabad | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Pune | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Brown‐spotted Locust sighting in Bengaluru on a given day, based on 51 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 104th most-seen of the 477 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.
August
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Brown‐spotted Locust in Bengaluru on a given day, against under 5% in March to May, the lowest months. That is one of Bengaluru's wettest months, with about 110 mm of rain against almost none in January.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Brown‐spotted Locust sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
5th of 7
Of the 7 cities where we can rate Brown‐spotted Locust sightings, Bengaluru ranks 5th at about 10%. The best odds are in Nairobi (Kenya, about 20%), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam, about 20%) and Coimbatore (India, about 20%).
Same family: Acrididae
The closest relatives of the Brown‐spotted Locust that you can see in Bengaluru (family Acrididae, Short-horned Grasshoppers) are Spathosternum prasiniferum (about 10%), Carinate Locust (about 10%) and Little Clown Grasshopper (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown‐spotted Locust is recorded against all the insects logged in Bengaluru (51 verified sightings), 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.
