Polygonus leo
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Polygonus leo, the hammock skipper, is a species of dicot skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, Central America, North America, and South America. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everglades National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report an Antillean Hammock Skipper sighting in Everglades National Park on a given day, based on 184 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 24th most-seen of the 496 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and September
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report an Antillean Hammock Skipper in Everglades National Park on a given day, against about 10% in February and March, the lowest months. Those are among Everglades National Park's wettest months, with about 180 mm of rain a month against 40 mm in March.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Antillean Hammock Skipper sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Everglades National Park, in our data
Everglades National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Antillean Hammock Skipper sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Hesperiidae
The closest relatives of the Antillean Hammock Skipper that you can see in Everglades National Park (family Hesperiidae, Skippers) are Mangrove Skipper (about 20%), Ocola Skipper (about 20%) and Dorantes Longtail (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Antillean Hammock Skipper is recorded against all the insects logged in Everglades National Park (184 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.
