Ropalidia merina
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antananarivo | 🇲🇬 Madagascar |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Ropalidia merina sighting in Antananarivo on a given day, based on 12 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 24th most-seen of the 59 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.
December and January
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Ropalidia merina in Antananarivo on a given day, against under 5% in March, May, July, September and November, the lowest months. Those are among Antananarivo's wettest months, with about 430 mm of rain a month against 45 mm in September.
Only Antananarivo, in our data
Antananarivo is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Ropalidia merina sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Ropalidia
The closest relatives of the Ropalidia merina that you can see in Antananarivo (genus Ropalidia, Small Brown Paper Wasps) are Ropalidia fraterna (about 20%) and Ropalidia shestakowi (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Ropalidia merina is recorded against all the insects logged in Antananarivo (12 verified sightings), 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.
