Parasa latistriga
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 2 | Garden Route National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 3 | Table Mountain National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cape Town | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Plum-Slug sighting in Cape Town on a given day, based on 10 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 208th most-seen of the 311 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February
In that month about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Plum-Slug in Cape Town on a given day, against under 5% in March to January, the lowest months. That is one of Cape Town's driest months, with about 15 mm of rain against 140 mm in June.
Between 8 and 11 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Plum-Slug sightings with a recorded time, and about half of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is seen both by day and at night.
Only Cape Town, in our data
Cape Town is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Plum-Slug sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Lepidoptera
The closest relatives of the Plum-Slug that you can see in Cape Town (order Lepidoptera, Butterflies and Moths) are Large White (about 30%), Garden Acraea (about 30%) and Painted Lady (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Plum-Slug is recorded against all the insects logged in Cape Town (10 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.
