Calosoma schayeri
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Calosoma schayeri (green carab beetle or saffron beetle) is a species of Carabidae that occurs in Australia. Like most Carabidae the larvae are predaceous. It is quite active at night when it is found hunting for slow-moving prey such as caterpillars. If handled it gives off an unpleasant scent. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perth | 🇦🇺 Australia |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Green Carab Beetle sighting in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park on a given day, based on 9 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 15th most-seen of the 38 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Green Carab Beetle in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February, May–July and September–November, the lowest months. That is one of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park's driest months, with about 10 mm of rain against 65 mm in January.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Green Carab Beetle sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, in our data
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Green Carab Beetle sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Coleoptera
The closest relatives of the Green Carab Beetle that you can see in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (order Coleoptera, Beetles) are Omorgus rotundulus (about 20%) and Small Transverse Ladybird Beetle (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Green Carab Beetle is recorded against all the insects logged in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (9 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.
