Austracris basalis
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kakadu National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Spotted Spur-Throated Locust sighting in Kakadu National Park on a given day, based on 10 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 36th most-seen of the 76 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
December
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Spotted Spur-Throated Locust in Kakadu National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–April, August and October, the lowest months. That is one of Kakadu National Park's wettest months, with about 250 mm of rain against almost none in August.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Spotted Spur-Throated Locust 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 Kakadu National Park, in our data
Kakadu National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Spotted Spur-Throated Locust sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Acrididae
The closest relatives of the Spotted Spur-Throated Locust that you can see in Kakadu National Park (family Acrididae, Short-horned Grasshoppers) are Tropical Sharptail (about 20%), Giant Grasshopper (about 20%) and Zebra Grasshopper (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Spotted Spur-Throated Locust is recorded against all the insects logged in Kakadu National Park (10 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.
