Pseudomops septentrionalis
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Pseudomops septentrionalis, the pale bordered field cockroach or firefly roach, is a species of cockroach in the family Ectobiidae. It is found in Central America and North America. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cumbres de Monterrey National Park | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Austin | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Dallas | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | Houston | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 4 | Monterrey | 🇲🇽 México | |
| 5 | San Antonio | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 6 | Washington | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Pale-Bordered Field Cockroach sighting in Cumbres de Monterrey National Park on a given day, based on 47 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 56th most-seen of the 431 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.
April to June
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Pale-Bordered Field Cockroach in Cumbres de Monterrey National Park on a given day, against under 5% in September and November–February, the lowest months. Those are among Cumbres de Monterrey National Park's wettest months, with about 140 mm of rain a month against 20 mm in December.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Pale-Bordered Field Cockroach sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Cumbres de Monterrey National Park, in our data
Cumbres de Monterrey National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Pale-Bordered Field Cockroach sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Blattodea
The closest relatives of the Pale-Bordered Field Cockroach that you can see in Cumbres de Monterrey National Park (order Blattodea, Cockroaches and Termites) are Surinam Cockroach (about 10%) and American Cockroach (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Pale-Bordered Field Cockroach is recorded against all the insects logged in Cumbres de Monterrey National Park (47 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
