Eurema floricola
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
Eurema floricola, the Malagasy grass yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and on Madagascar, the Comoros, Mauritius, Réunion and the Seychelles. Its habitat consists of the forest/savanna transition zone.
The larvae feed on Desmanthus virgatus, Caesalpinia bonducella, Leucaena glauca, Mimosa and Entada species. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ankarafantsika National Park | 🇲🇬 Madagascar | |
| 2 | iSimangaliso Wetland Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 3 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Durban | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Malagasy Grass Yellow sighting in Durban on a given day, based on 31 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 67th most-seen of the 401 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January–August and October–November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Malagasy Grass Yellow in Durban on a given day, against under 5% in September and December, the lowest months.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Malagasy Grass Yellow sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Durban, in our data
Durban is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Malagasy Grass Yellow sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Eurema
The closest relatives of the Malagasy Grass Yellow that you can see in Durban (genus Eurema, Grass Yellows) are Broad-Bordered Grass Yellow (about 10%) and Eurema regularis (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Malagasy Grass Yellow is recorded against all the insects logged in Durban (31 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.
