Oedipoda caerulescens
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
The blue-winged grasshopper, Oedipoda caerulescens, is a grasshopper in the genus Oedipoda. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Triglav National Park | 🇸🇮 Slovenia | |
| 2 | Sierra Nevada National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 3 | Cévennes National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 4 | Białowieża National Park | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 5 | Mercantour National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 6 | Hohe Tauern National Park | 🇦🇹 Austria | |
| 7 | Ecrins National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 8 | Sierra de Guadarrama National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 9 | Fertő-Hanság National Park | 🇭🇺 Hungary | |
| 10 | Pyrénées National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 11 | Bavarian Forest National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 12 | Wadden Sea National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Blue-Winged Grasshopper sighting in Madrid on a given day, based on 20 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 179th most-seen of the 457 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June to September
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Blue-Winged Grasshopper in Madrid on a given day, against under 5% in October to May, the lowest months. Those are among Madrid's driest months, with about 15 mm of rain a month against 65 mm in October.
Between 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Blue-Winged Grasshopper sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 22 cities where we can rate Blue-Winged Grasshopper sightings, Madrid ranks 16th at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Kharkiv (Ukraine, about 10%), Warsaw (Poland, about 10%) and Munich (Germany, about 10%).
Same family: Acrididae
The closest relatives of the Blue-Winged Grasshopper that you can see in Madrid (family Acrididae, Short-horned Grasshoppers) are Egyptian Bird Grasshopper (about 20%), Iberian Field Grasshopper (about 10%) and Migratory Locust (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Blue-Winged Grasshopper is recorded against all the insects logged in Madrid (20 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.
