Polistes gigas
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taroko National Park | 🇹🇼 Taiwan |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Giant Brown Paper Wasp sighting in Guangzhou on a given day, based on 43 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 63rd most-seen of the 482 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.
December
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Giant Brown Paper Wasp in Guangzhou on a given day, against under 5% in February and March, the lowest months. That is one of Guangzhou's driest months, with about 30 mm of rain against 330 mm in June.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Giant Brown Paper Wasp sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
7th of 7
Of the 7 cities where we can rate Giant Brown Paper Wasp sightings, Guangzhou ranks 7th at about 10%. The best odds are in Tuen Mun (China, about 20%), Fuzhou (China, about 10%) and Hong Kong (China, about 10%).
Same genus: Polistes
The closest relatives of the Giant Brown Paper Wasp that you can see in Guangzhou (genus Polistes, Umbrella Paper Wasps) are Tropical Paper Wasp (about 10%), Rothney's Paper Wasp (about 10%) and Yellow Oriental Paper Wasp (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Giant Brown Paper Wasp is recorded against all the insects logged in Guangzhou (43 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.
