Xylocopa flavicollis
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Addo Elephant National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 2 | iSimangaliso Wetland Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 3 | Garden Route National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Durban | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a One-Striped Large Carpenter Bee sighting in Durban on a given day, based on 17 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 132nd 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 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April–June, August and December–January
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a One-Striped Large Carpenter Bee in Durban on a given day, against under 5% in February–March, July and September–November, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most One-Striped Large Carpenter Bee sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all 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 One-Striped Large Carpenter Bee sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Xylocopa
The closest relatives of the One-Striped Large Carpenter Bee that you can see in Durban (genus Xylocopa, Large Carpenter Bees) are Big Red Large Carpenter Bee (about 10%) and Double-Banded Carpenter Bee (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the One-Striped Large Carpenter Bee is recorded against all the insects logged in Durban (17 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.
