Smyrna blomfildia
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Smyrna blomfildia, the Blomfild's beauty, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rincón de la Vieja National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 2 | Masaya Volcano National Park | 🇳🇮 Nicaragua | |
| 3 | Ostional Wildlife Refuge | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 4 | Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 5 | Biotopo Cerro Cahuí | 🇬🇹 Guatemala | |
| 6 | Cañón del Sumidero National Park | 🇲🇽 Mexico | |
| 7 | Lago de Yojoa | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 8 | Chirripó National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 9 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 10 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 11 | Carara National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 12 | Arenal Volcano National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tegucigalpa | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 2 | San Salvador | 🇸🇻 El Salvador | |
| 3 | Guatemala City | 🇬🇹 Guatemala | |
| 4 | Guadalajara | 🇲🇽 México | |
| 5 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 6 | Mexico City | 🇲🇽 México | |
| 7 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Blomfild's Beauty sighting in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve on a given day, based on 75 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 29th most-seen of the 506 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.
July–August and October
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Blomfild's Beauty in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve on a given day, against under 5% in February–March and May, the lowest months. Those are among Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve's wettest months, with about 340 mm of rain a month against 45 mm in March.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Blomfild's Beauty sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
4th of 12
Of the 12 parks where we can rate Blomfild's Beauty sightings, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve ranks 4th at about 20%. The best odds are in Rincón de la Vieja National Park (Costa Rica, about 30%), Masaya Volcano National Park (Nicaragua, about 20%) and Ostional Wildlife Refuge (Costa Rica, about 20%).
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Blomfild's Beauty that you can see in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Common Morpho (about 30%), Clysonymus Longwing (about 30%) and Wide-Bordered Satyr (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Blomfild's Beauty is recorded against all the insects logged in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (75 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.
