Xanthorhoe designata
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
Xanthorhoe designata, the flame carpet, is a moth of the genus Xanthorhoe in the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1767. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snowdonia National Park | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 2 | Cairngorms National Park | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 3 | Bavarian Forest National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 4 | Pyrénées National Park | 🇫🇷 France |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liverpool | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 2 | Manchester | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 3 | Birmingham | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 4 | Helsinki | 🇫🇮 Finland | |
| 5 | London | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 6 | Moscow | 🇷🇺 Russia |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Flame Carpet sighting in Helsinki on a given day, based on 11 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 445th most-seen of the 838 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and August
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Flame Carpet in Helsinki on a given day, against under 5% in June–July and September–April, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Flame Carpet sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
4th of 6
Of the 6 cities where we can rate Flame Carpet sightings, Helsinki ranks 4th at under 5%. The best odds are in Liverpool (United Kingdom, about 20%), Manchester (United Kingdom, about 10%) and Birmingham (United Kingdom, about 10%).
Same genus: Xanthorhoe
The closest relatives of the Flame Carpet that you can see in Helsinki (genus Xanthorhoe) are Garden Carpet (about 10%) and Dark-Barred Twin-Spot Carpet (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Flame Carpet is recorded against all the insects logged in Helsinki (11 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.
