Icerya seychellarum
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Table Mountain National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valencia | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 2 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 3 | Cape Town | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 4 | Pretoria | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 5 | Johannesburg | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 6 | Buenos Aires | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 7 | Brisbane | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 8 | Guangzhou | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 9 | Taipei | 🇹🇼 Taiwan | |
| 10 | Singapore | 🇸🇬 Singapore |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Seychelles Scale sighting in Pretoria on a given day, based on 7 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.
February, April and June–September
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Seychelles Scale in Pretoria on a given day, against under 5% in March, May and October–January, the lowest months. Those are among Pretoria's driest months, with about 25 mm of rain a month against 130 mm in December.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Seychelles Scale sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
4th of 11
Of the 11 cities where we can rate Seychelles Scale sightings, Pretoria ranks 4th at about 10%. The best odds are in Valencia (Spain, about 20%), Nairobi (Kenya, about 10%) and Cape Town (South Africa, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Seychelles Scale is recorded against all the insects logged in Pretoria (7 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.
