Macaria truncataria
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jasper National Park | 🇨🇦 Canada |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Black-Banded Orange Moth sighting in Jasper National Park on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 63rd most-seen of the 88 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and June
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Black-Banded Orange Moth in Jasper National Park on a given day, against under 5% in July to April, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Black-Banded Orange Moth 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 Jasper National Park, in our data
Jasper National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Black-Banded Orange Moth sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Geometridae
The closest relatives of the Black-Banded Orange Moth that you can see in Jasper National Park (family Geometridae, Geometer Moths) are White-Striped Black (about 10%), Pale Beauty (about 10%) and Peppered Moth (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-Banded Orange Moth is recorded against all the insects logged in Jasper National Park (6 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.
