Tramea darwini
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Galápagos Islands | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 2 | Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve | 🇲🇽 Mexico | |
| 3 | Palo Verde National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 4 | Parque Natural Metropolitano | 🇵🇦 Panama |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guayaquil | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 2 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 3 | Mesa | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 4 | Houston | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 5 | Austin | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Striped Saddlebags sighting in Guayaquil on a given day, based on 16 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 8th most-seen of the 30 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March and May
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Striped Saddlebags in Guayaquil on a given day, against under 5% in August to December, the lowest months. Those are among Guayaquil's wettest months, with about 130 mm of rain a month against almost none in September.
Between 2 and 5 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Striped Saddlebags sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Yes
Of the 5 cities where we can rate Striped Saddlebags sightings, Guayaquil has the highest daily chance: about 10%. Next come Panama City (Panama, about 10%) and Mesa (United States, about 10%).
Same family: Libellulidae
The closest relatives of the Striped Saddlebags that you can see in Guayaquil (family Libellulidae, Skimmers) are Great Pondhawk (about 30%), Band-Winged Dragonlet (about 20%) and Wandering Glider (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Striped Saddlebags is recorded against all the insects logged in Guayaquil (16 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.
