Phaneroptera falcata
In 3 days ~60% in a week ~80%
Phaneroptera falcata, the sickle-bearing bush-cricket, is a species of orthopteran belonging to the subfamily Phaneropterinae. It is mostly herbivorous and commonly measures 24 to 36 mm long. It lives mainly in warm scrub and grasslands areas, also on dry shrubbery and in sand pits and gardens.
Phaneroptera falcata occurs in Europe and has historically been restricted to southern and central parts of the continent. They are absent in the Alpine foothills and in many parts of the Swabian Alps. Phaneroptera falcata has been extending the northern limits of its range in mainland Europe in recent decades; it is now regular in parts of southernmost Scandinavia, despite only spreading to the region quite recently (first record in Denmark in 2010 and in Sweden in 2014). Vagrant adults are occasionally found in Britain, and a small, but apparently established, colony was discovered near Dungeness in Kent in 2015.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bavarian Forest National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 2 | Pyrénées National Park | 🇫🇷 France |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Sickle-Bearing Bush-Cricket sighting in Daegu on a given day, based on 9 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 15th most-seen of the 38 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May–June and August–September
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Sickle-Bearing Bush-Cricket in Daegu on a given day, against under 5% in March and October, the lowest months. Those are among Daegu's wettest months, with about 150 mm of rain a month against 25 mm in December. December has too few records to rate.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Sickle-Bearing Bush-Cricket sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Yes
Of the 15 cities where we can rate Sickle-Bearing Bush-Cricket sightings, Daegu has the highest daily chance: about 20%. Next come Nagoya (Japan, about 10%) and Seoul (South Korea, about 10%).
Same family: Tettigoniidae
The closest relatives of the Sickle-Bearing Bush-Cricket that you can see in Daegu (family Tettigoniidae, Katydids) are Gampsocleis ussuriensis (about 30%) and Eobiana engelhardti (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Sickle-Bearing Bush-Cricket is recorded against all the insects logged in Daegu (9 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.
