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Emesis wrighti
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joshua Tree National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Emesis wrighti sighting in Joshua Tree National Park on a given day, based on 25 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.
June
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report an Emesis wrighti in Joshua Tree National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–February and July–August, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Emesis wrighti 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 Emesis wrighti sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Lycaenidae
The closest relatives of the Emesis wrighti that you can see in Joshua Tree National Park (family Lycaenidae, Gossamer-winged Butterflies) are Great Purple Hairstreak (about 30%), Marine Blue (about 20%) and Western Pygmy-Blue (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Emesis wrighti is recorded against all the insects logged in Joshua Tree National Park (25 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.
