Pseudogaurotina cressoni
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
Pseudogaurotina cressoni is a species of the Lepturinae subfamily in the long-horned beetle family. This beetle is distributed in Canada, and the United States. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glacier National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calgary | 🇨🇦 Canada |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Metallic Fir Borer sighting in Glacier National Park on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 107th most-seen of the 147 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.
July
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Metallic Fir Borer in Glacier National Park on a given day, against under 5% in August to June, the lowest months. That is one of Glacier National Park's driest months, with about 20 mm of rain against 80 mm in February.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Metallic Fir Borer sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Glacier National Park, in our data
Glacier National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Metallic Fir Borer sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Cerambycidae
The closest relatives of the Metallic Fir Borer that you can see in Glacier National Park (family Cerambycidae, Longhorn Beetles) are White-Spotted Sawyer (about 30%), Yellow Velvet Beetle (about 20%) and Xestoleptura tibialis (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Metallic Fir Borer is recorded against all the insects logged in Glacier 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.
