Poecilanthrax lucifer
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
Poecilanthrax lucifer is a species of bee fly in the family Bombyliidae. 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 | Dallas | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Austin | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | San Antonio | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 4 | Miami | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 5 | Houston | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Poecilanthrax lucifer sighting in Everglades National Park on a given day, based on 15 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 213th most-seen of the 496 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April–August and October–November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Poecilanthrax lucifer in Everglades National Park on a given day, against under 5% in September and December–March, the lowest months.
Between 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Poecilanthrax lucifer 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 Everglades National Park, in our data
Everglades National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Poecilanthrax lucifer sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Diptera
The closest relatives of the Poecilanthrax lucifer that you can see in Everglades National Park (order Diptera, Flies) are White-Faced Plushback (about 20%), Northern Plushback (about 10%) and Sea Grape Gall Midge (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Poecilanthrax lucifer is recorded against all the insects logged in Everglades National Park (15 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.
