Acontia zelleri
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Acontia gratiosa is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren in 1856. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretoria | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Golden Droplet sighting in Kruger National Park on a given day, based on 24 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 193rd most-seen of the 748 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.
October to March
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Golden Droplet in Kruger National Park on a given day, against under 5% in April to September, the lowest months. Those are among Kruger National Park's wettest months, with about 70 mm of rain a month against almost none in August.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Golden Droplet sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is seen both by day and at night.
Only Kruger National Park, in our data
Kruger National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Golden Droplet sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Acontia
The closest relatives of the Golden Droplet that you can see in Kruger National Park (genus Acontia) are Shadow Droplet (about 10%), Acontia discoidea (about 10%) and Domino (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Golden Droplet is recorded against all the insects logged in Kruger National Park (24 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.
