Asphondylia foliosa
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death Valley National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Creosote Leafy Bud Gall Midge sighting in Death Valley National Park on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 58th most-seen of the 108 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 April
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Creosote Leafy Bud Gall Midge in Death Valley National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February–March and May–December, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Creosote Leafy Bud Gall Midge sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Death Valley National Park, in our data
Death Valley National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Creosote Leafy Bud Gall Midge sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Asphondylia
The closest relatives of the Creosote Leafy Bud Gall Midge that you can see in Death Valley National Park (genus Asphondylia) are Large Creosote Gall Midge (about 60%), Creosote Cone Gall Midge (about 10%) and Saltbush Woolly Stem Gall Midge (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Creosote Leafy Bud Gall Midge is recorded against all the insects logged in Death Valley National Park (7 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.
