Icerya seychellarum
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
| # | 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 | Valencia | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 2 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 3 | Cape Town | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 4 | Pretoria | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 5 | Johannesburg | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 6 | Buenos Aires | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 7 | Brisbane | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 8 | Guangzhou | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 9 | Taipei | 🇹🇼 Taiwan | |
| 10 | Singapore | 🇸🇬 Singapore |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Seychelles Scale sighting in Cape Town on a given day, based on 64 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 74th most-seen of the 311 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.
January–August and October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Seychelles Scale in Cape Town on a given day, against under 5% in September and November–December, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Seychelles Scale sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 11
Of the 11 cities where we can rate Seychelles Scale sightings, Cape Town ranks 3rd at about 10%. The best odds are in Valencia (Spain, about 20%) and Nairobi (Kenya, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Seychelles Scale is recorded against all the insects logged in Cape Town (64 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.
