Eleodes gracilis
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Eleodes gracilis is a species of desert stink beetle in the family Tenebrionidae. 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 | |
| 2 | San Diego | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Eleodes gracilis sighting in Joshua Tree National Park on a given day, based on 22 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 69th most-seen of the 190 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report an Eleodes gracilis in Joshua Tree National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June–August and October–January, the lowest months.
Between noon and 3 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Eleodes gracilis 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 Joshua Tree National Park, in our data
Joshua Tree National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Eleodes gracilis sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Eleodes
The closest relatives of the Eleodes gracilis that you can see in Joshua Tree National Park (genus Eleodes, Desert Stink Beetles) are Armored Stink Beetle (about 30%), Eleodes grandicollis (about 20%) and Rough-Lipped Darkling Beetle (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Eleodes gracilis is recorded against all the insects logged in Joshua Tree National Park (22 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.
