Colpa octomaculata
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
Colpa octomaculata is a species of scoliid wasp native to North America. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Bend National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report an Eight-Spotted Scoliid Wasp sighting in Big Bend National Park on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 283rd most-seen of the 329 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May, July and September
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report an Eight-Spotted Scoliid Wasp in Big Bend National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June, August and October–April, the lowest months. Those are among Big Bend National Park's wettest months, with about 35 mm of rain a month against 10 mm in April.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Eight-Spotted Scoliid Wasp 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 Big Bend National Park, in our data
Big Bend National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Eight-Spotted Scoliid Wasp sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Hymenoptera
The closest relatives of the Eight-Spotted Scoliid Wasp that you can see in Big Bend National Park (order Hymenoptera, Ants, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies) are Comanche Paper Wasp (about 30%), Rough Harvester Ant (about 20%) and Western Carpenter Bee (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Eight-Spotted Scoliid Wasp is recorded against all the insects logged in Big Bend National Park (6 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.
