Laphria janus
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Laphria janus is a species of robber flies in the family Asilidae. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elk Island National Park | 🇨🇦 Canada |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edmonton | 🇨🇦 Canada |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report an Orange-Tailed Laphria sighting in Elk Island National Park on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 40th most-seen of the 112 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June and July
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report an Orange-Tailed Laphria in Elk Island National Park on a given day, against under 5% in August to May, the lowest months. Those are among Elk Island National Park's wettest months, with about 110 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 Orange-Tailed Laphria sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Elk Island National Park, in our data
Elk Island National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Orange-Tailed Laphria sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Diptera
The closest relatives of the Orange-Tailed Laphria that you can see in Elk Island National Park (order Diptera, Flies) are Goldenrod Gall Fly (about 10%), Temnostoma excentricum (about 10%) and Stratiomys badia (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Orange-Tailed Laphria is recorded against all the insects logged in Elk Island National Park (13 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.
