Aspidoproctus mirabilis
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretoria | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Horned Soft Scale sighting in Pretoria on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 195th most-seen of the 274 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.
April and October–December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Horned Soft Scale in Pretoria on a given day, against under 5% in January–March and May–September, the lowest months. Those are among Pretoria's wettest months, with about 80 mm of rain a month against almost none in July.
Only Pretoria, in our data
Pretoria is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Horned Soft Scale sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Margarodidae
The closest relatives of the Horned Soft Scale that you can see in Pretoria (family Margarodidae, ground pearls) are Cottony Cushion Scale (about 10%) and Seychelles Scale (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Horned Soft Scale is recorded against all the insects logged in Pretoria (6 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.
