Polygonia hylas
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rocky Mountain National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Polygonia hylas sighting in Rocky Mountain National Park on a given day, based on 11 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 110th most-seen of the 191 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April–May and September–October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Polygonia hylas in Rocky Mountain National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June–August and November–March, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Polygonia hylas sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Rocky Mountain National Park, in our data
Rocky Mountain National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Polygonia hylas sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Polygonia
The closest relatives of the Polygonia hylas that you can see in Rocky Mountain National Park (genus Polygonia, Commas) are Hoary Comma (about 20%) and Green Comma (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Polygonia hylas is recorded against all the insects logged in Rocky Mountain National Park (11 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.
