Polites coras
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shenandoah National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Acadia National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | Great Smoky Mountains National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 4 | Yellowstone National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Detroit | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Minneapolis [Saint Paul] | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | Toronto | 🇨🇦 Canada | |
| 4 | Boston | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 5 | Washington | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 6 | Chicago | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 7 | Baltimore | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 8 | Denver | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 9 | Philadelphia | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 10 | Edmonton | 🇨🇦 Canada |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Peck's Skipper sighting in Philadelphia on a given day, based on 115 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 57th most-seen of the 632 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and September
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Peck's Skipper in Philadelphia on a given day, against under 5% in June and October–April, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Peck's Skipper sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
9th of 11
Of the 11 cities where we can rate Peck's Skipper sightings, Philadelphia ranks 9th at about 10%. The best odds are in Detroit (United States, about 30%), Minneapolis [Saint Paul] (United States, about 20%) and Toronto (Canada, about 20%).
Same family: Hesperiidae
The closest relatives of the Peck's Skipper that you can see in Philadelphia (family Hesperiidae, Skippers) are Silver-Spotted Skipper (about 20%), Zabulon Skipper (about 10%) and Common Sootywing (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Peck's Skipper is recorded against all the insects logged in Philadelphia (115 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.
