Epitheca spinigera
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The spiny baskettail (Epitheca spinigera) is a dragonfly of the Corduliidae family. Flight season is late May to early July. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riding Mountain National Park | 🇨🇦 Canada |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portland | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Minneapolis [Saint Paul] | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Spiny Baskettail sighting in Riding Mountain National Park on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 85th most-seen of the 104 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.
June and July
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Spiny Baskettail in Riding Mountain National Park on a given day, against under 5% in August to May, the lowest months. Those are among Riding Mountain National Park's wettest months, with about 85 mm of rain a month against 20 mm in February.
Between 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Spiny Baskettail sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Riding Mountain National Park, in our data
Riding Mountain National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Spiny Baskettail sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Spiny Baskettail is recorded against all the insects logged in Riding Mountain National Park (5 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.
