Deropeltis erythrocephala
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Table Mountain National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 2 | Garden Route National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 3 | Addo Elephant National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cape Town | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red-Headed Cockroach sighting in Cape Town on a given day, based on 169 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 28th 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.
September and October
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Red-Headed Cockroach in Cape Town on a given day, against under 5% in February and March, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red-Headed Cockroach sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: 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 Red-Headed Cockroach sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-Headed Cockroach is recorded against all the insects logged in Cape Town (169 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.
