Eurema salome
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
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 Toluca on a given day, based on 9 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 44th most-seen of the 70 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.
January and October–November
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Salome Yellow in Toluca on a given day, against under 5% in February–March, May–July, September and December, the lowest months. Those are among Toluca's driest months, with about 30 mm of rain a month against 150 mm in July.
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.
Yes
Of the 4 cities where we can rate Salome Yellow sightings, Toluca has the highest daily chance: about 10%. Next come Mexico City (México, about 10%) and San José (Costa Rica, under 5%).
Same family: Pieridae
The closest relatives of the Salome Yellow that you can see in Toluca (family Pieridae, Whites, Yellows, and Sulphurs) are Pure-Banded Dartwhite (about 40%), Green-Eyed White (about 30%) and Cloudless Sulphur (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Salome Yellow is recorded against all the insects logged in Toluca (9 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.
