Eurema salome
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
Eurema salome, the Salome yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found from Peru northward through tropical America. It is an extremely rare migrant to the lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas. The habitat consists of forest openings and edges and roadcuts.
The wingspan is 47–57 mm (1.9–2.2 in). Adults are on wing from August to September in southern Texas and all year round in the tropics. Adults feed on flower nectar of a wide variety of flowers. The larvae feed on Diphysa species. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toluca | 🇲🇽 México | |
| 2 | Mexico City | 🇲🇽 México | |
| 3 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 4 | Bogota | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Salome Yellow sighting in Mexico City on a given day, based on 79 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 108th most-seen of the 557 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.
April and September–January
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Salome Yellow in Mexico City on a given day, against under 5% in February–March and May–August, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Salome Yellow sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 4 cities where we can rate Salome Yellow sightings, Mexico City ranks 2nd at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Toluca (México, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Salome Yellow is recorded against all the insects logged in Mexico City (79 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.
