Scymnodes lividigaster
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
Apolinus lividigaster, the yellow-shouldered ladybird, is a small ladybird beetle found in Australia and New Guinea, and introduced to New Zealand, New Caledonia, the Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Samoa and Hawaii. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springbrook National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-Shouldered Ladybird sighting in Perth on a given day, based on 18 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 115th most-seen of the 275 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June to November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-Shouldered Ladybird in Perth on a given day, against under 5% in December to May, the lowest months. Those are among Perth's wettest months, with about 80 mm of rain a month against 10 mm in December.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow-Shouldered Ladybird sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 5 cities where we can rate Yellow-Shouldered Ladybird sightings, Perth ranks 5th at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Brisbane (Australia, about 10%), Auckland (New Zealand, about 10%) and Sydney (Australia, about 10%).
Same family: Coccinellidae
The closest relatives of the Yellow-Shouldered Ladybird that you can see in Perth (family Coccinellidae, Lady Beetles) are Large Spotted Ladybird (about 20%), Small Transverse Ladybird Beetle (about 20%) and Six-Spotted Zigzag Ladybird (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow-Shouldered Ladybird is recorded against all the insects logged in Perth (18 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.
