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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Athens | 🇬🇷 Greece |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Five-Spotted Velvet Ant sighting in Athens on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 162nd most-seen of the 242 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and July–November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Five-Spotted Velvet Ant in Athens on a given day, against under 5% in June and December–April, the lowest months.
Only Athens, in our data
Athens is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Five-Spotted Velvet Ant sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Hymenoptera
The closest relatives of the Five-Spotted Velvet Ant that you can see in Athens (order Hymenoptera, Ants, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies) are Oriental Hornet (about 40%), Pubescent Carpenter Bee (about 40%) and Florentine Woolcarder Bee (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Five-Spotted Velvet Ant is recorded against all the insects logged in Athens (6 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.
