Hemileuca electra
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Hemileuca electra, the electra buckmoth, is a species of buck or io moth in the family Saturniidae. It is found in Central America and North America. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joshua Tree National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los Angeles | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Electra Buckmoth sighting in Joshua Tree National Park on a given day, based on 12 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 96th most-seen of the 190 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.
March–May and September–October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report an Electra Buckmoth in Joshua Tree National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June–August and November–February, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Electra Buckmoth 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 Joshua Tree National Park, in our data
Joshua Tree National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Electra Buckmoth sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Lepidoptera
The closest relatives of the Electra Buckmoth that you can see in Joshua Tree National Park (order Lepidoptera, Butterflies and Moths) are White-Lined Sphinx (about 40%), Painted Lady (about 40%) and California Patch (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Electra Buckmoth is recorded against all the insects logged in Joshua Tree National Park (12 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.
