Alerts
Questions, or a record to report? Email email Sulav.
Map
Country status click a country to focus the chart, map and table
Records
| Photo | Observed | Country / place | Evidence | Source |
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How it works
- Every day · GBIF + iNaturalist Every record of the beetle in South America, the Caribbean and the continental US is collected, plus Mexico and Central America, where the beetle is established on the Pacific coast. The continental US excludes Hawaiʻi and Alaska. GBIF copies of iNaturalist records are merged, so nothing is counted twice.
- Evidence grading Confirmed means research grade on iNaturalist, or confirmed by a reviewer here. Needs checking covers "needs ID" and casual records, plus museum, survey, laboratory and DNA records from GBIF. Captive / lab covers pets, cultures and interceptions.
- Alerts New record · first record in a country · first confirmed record · a jump of more than 100 km from any earlier confirmed record · a record upgraded to confirmed · a monthly spike (more than double the previous month) · a record withdrawn at its source. Alerts are e-mailed to the project team.
- Human review Open any record and email Sulav Paudel if it looks wrong or you know more. Records found not to be CRB drop out of counts and alerts.
Sources & citation
Records come from GBIF and iNaturalist. They remain the property of their publishers and observers. Each one links back to its source. Records can be mis-identified, so check the photo before acting.
The dashboard grew out of Sulav Paudel's automated pre-border surveillance scripts (B3 2026).
Paudel, S. (2026). CRB Surveillance: pre-border monitoring of Oryctes rhinoceros in the Americas [Web application]. https://s-paudel.github.io/crb-surveillance.html