Ellimenistes laesicollis
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Table Mountain National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cape Town | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Gardenbane Weevil sighting in Cape Town on a given day, based on 145 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 35th most-seen of the 311 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
December
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Gardenbane Weevil in Cape Town on a given day, against about 10% in January to November, the lowest months. That is one of Cape Town's driest months, with about 20 mm of rain against 140 mm in June.
Between noon and 3 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Gardenbane Weevil sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Cape Town, in our data
Cape Town is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Gardenbane Weevil sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Curculionidae
The closest relatives of the Gardenbane Weevil that you can see in Cape Town (family Curculionidae, True Weevils) are Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer (about 10%) and Garden Weevil (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Gardenbane Weevil is recorded against all the insects logged in Cape Town (145 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.
