Cicindela denikei
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Cicindela denikei, Laurentian tiger beetle is a species of tiger beetle in the Cicindelinae subfamily that can be found in Minnesota, Manitoba, and Ontario. The species have green coloured elytron and is 13–15 millimetres (0.51–0.59 in) long. It can be found in gravel and sand as well as coniferous forests where it preys on other insect species. When it comes to hunting, adults are either wait for their prey in an ambush or chase it. It larvae usually digs burrows in which they wait for their victim to come by. Once an unsuspected arthropod is in sight, it opens it jaws and eats it. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Voyageurs National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
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Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Laurentian Tiger Beetle sighting in Voyageurs National Park on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 20th most-seen of the 20 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.
June
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Laurentian Tiger Beetle in Voyageurs National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–April and September–November, the lowest months.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Laurentian Tiger Beetle sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Voyageurs National Park, in our data
Voyageurs National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Laurentian Tiger Beetle sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Coleoptera
The closest relatives of the Laurentian Tiger Beetle that you can see in Voyageurs National Park (order Coleoptera, Beetles) are American Carrion Beetle (about 30%), White-Spotted Sawyer (about 30%) and Asian Lady Beetle (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Laurentian Tiger Beetle is recorded against all the insects logged in Voyageurs National Park (13 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.
