Polites baracoa
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Polites baracoa, known generally as the baracoa skipper or little tawny edge skipper, is a species of grass skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea and North America. The MONA or Hodges number for Polites baracoa is 4040. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everglades National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Havana | 🇨🇺 Cuba | |
| 2 | Santo Domingo | 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic | |
| 3 | Miami | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Baracoa Skipper sighting in Everglades National Park on a given day, based on 53 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 85th most-seen of the 496 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January and September
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Baracoa Skipper in Everglades National Park on a given day, against under 5% in August, the lowest month.
Between noon and 3 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Baracoa 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 Baracoa Skipper sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Baracoa Skipper is recorded against all the insects logged in Everglades National Park (53 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.
