Castolus tricolor
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Castolus tricolor sighting in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve on a given day, based on 45 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 55th most-seen of the 506 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March–April and November
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Castolus tricolor in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve on a given day, against under 5% in July, the lowest month.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Castolus tricolor sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
Only Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, in our data
Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Castolus tricolor sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Reduviidae
The closest relatives of the Castolus tricolor that you can see in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (family Reduviidae, Assassin Bugs) are Meccus dimidiatus (about 10%) and Zelurus championi (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Castolus tricolor is recorded against all the insects logged in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (45 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.
