Geotrupes splendidus
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Smoky Mountains National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boston | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Splendid Earth-Boring Beetle sighting in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on a given day, based on 14 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 334th most-seen of the 822 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.
March, May and September–November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Splendid Earth-Boring Beetle in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on a given day, against under 5% in April, June–August and December–February, the lowest months.
Between 2 and 5 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Splendid Earth-Boring Beetle sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in our data
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Splendid Earth-Boring Beetle sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Splendid Earth-Boring Beetle is recorded against all the insects logged in Great Smoky Mountains National Park (14 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.
