Belenois creona
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Belenois creona, the African common white or African caper, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Afrotropical realm. The wingspan is 40–45 mm. The sexes are dimorphic. Uppersides are white with black or brown marginal borders and veins in forewing apex. There is a black spot in the upperside cell, instead of a bar as in the brown-veined white (B. aurota).
Females have broader dark upperside borders on both wings. Underwings are yellow during the wet season. The larvae feed on Capparis and Maerua species. Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 13 Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 12 Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gonarezhou National Park | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | |
| 2 | uMkhuze Game Reserve | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 3 | Lower Zambezi National Park | 🇿🇲 Zambia | |
| 4 | Akagera National Park | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 5 | Liwonde National Park | 🇲🇼 Malawi | |
| 6 | Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 7 | Mana Pools National Park | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | |
| 8 | Lake Mburo National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 9 | Mikumi National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 10 | Queen Elizabeth National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 11 | Lake Manyara National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 12 | Murchison Falls National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 13 | iSimangaliso Wetland Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 14 | Tsavo West National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 15 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 16 | Tarangire National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 17 | Addo Elephant National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 18 | Amboseli National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 19 | Bwindi Impenetrable National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 20 | Nairobi National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 21 | Chobe National Park | 🇧🇼 Botswana | |
| 22 | Garden Route National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lusaka | 🇿🇲 Zambia | |
| 2 | Ouagadougou | 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso | |
| 3 | Dar es-Salaam | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 4 | Durban | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 5 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 6 | Harare | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | |
| 7 | Pretoria | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 8 | Johannesburg | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an African Caper sighting in Nairobi on a given day, based on 12 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 44th most-seen of the 123 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report an African Caper in Nairobi on a given day, against under 5% in March–May and October–January, the lowest months. That is one of Nairobi's driest months, with about 25 mm of rain against 150 mm in April.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most African Caper sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
5th of 8
Of the 8 cities where we can rate African Caper sightings, Nairobi ranks 5th at about 10%. The best odds are in Lusaka (Zambia, about 50%), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso, about 30%) and Dar es-Salaam (Tanzania, about 20%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the African Caper is recorded against all the insects logged in Nairobi (12 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.
