Xylocopa latipes
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Xylocopa latipes, the broad-handed carpenter bee, is a species of carpenter bee widely dispersed throughout Southeast Asia. This bee inhabits forests and constructs nests by burrowing into wood. It often makes long deep tunnels in wooden rafters, fallen trees, telephone poles, etc., but is not found in living trees.
It was first described by the English entomologist, Dru Drury in 1773, and is a member of the group of carpenter bees (Family Apidae). The broad-handed carpenter bee is a very large, robust, solitary bee. It is shiny, fully black in colour with fuscous metallic blue-green or purple wings in sunlight. The broad-handed carpenter bee is among the largest Xylocopa known and among the largest bees of the world (though it is not the world's largest, that title belongs to another Southeast Asian bee, the Indonesian Megachile pluto). It has a loud and distinctive, low-pitched buzzing that can be heard as it flies between flowers or perches. In urban areas, these bees can become attached to certain perches, returning to them day after day, even after several generations.
Carpenter bees mate on-the-wing. Males grasp the females in flight and place their front or middle... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bako National Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 2 | Danum Valley Conservation Area | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 3 | Gunung Leuser National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 4 | Kinabalu Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 5 | Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 6 | Taman Negara National Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 7 | Khao Sok National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 8 | Sepilok | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 9 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 10 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kuching | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 2 | Kuala Lumpur | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 3 | Surakarta | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 4 | Singapore | 🇸🇬 Singapore | |
| 5 | Denpasar | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 6 | Yogyakarta | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 7 | Johor Bahru | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 8 | Jakarta | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 9 | Bandung | 🇮🇩 Indonesia |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Broad-Handed Carpenter Bee sighting in Kuala Lumpur on a given day, based on 86 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 20th most-seen of the 323 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February and October
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Broad-Handed Carpenter Bee in Kuala Lumpur on a given day, against about 10% in March and April, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Broad-Handed Carpenter Bee sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 9
Of the 9 cities where we can rate Broad-Handed Carpenter Bee sightings, Kuala Lumpur ranks 2nd at about 20%. The best odds are in Kuching (Malaysia, about 30%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Broad-Handed Carpenter Bee is recorded against all the insects logged in Kuala Lumpur (86 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.
