Polybia ruficeps
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mendoza | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | Fortaleza | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Santa Cruz de la Sierra | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 4 | Cordoba | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 5 | Santiago | 🇨🇱 Chile |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red-Headed Polybia Wasp sighting in Santiago on a given day, based on 17 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 64th most-seen of the 173 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April, September and November–February
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red-Headed Polybia Wasp in Santiago on a given day, against under 5% in March, May–August and October, the lowest months. Those are among Santiago's driest months, with about 10 mm of rain a month against 65 mm in June.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red-Headed Polybia Wasp sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
5th of 5
Of the 5 cities where we can rate Red-Headed Polybia Wasp sightings, Santiago ranks 5th at about 10%. The best odds are in Mendoza (Argentina, about 20%), Fortaleza (Brazil, about 20%) and Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia, about 10%).
Same family: Eumenidae
The closest relatives of the Red-Headed Polybia Wasp that you can see in Santiago (family Eumenidae) are European Paper Wasp (about 20%) and Pachodynerus gayi (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-Headed Polybia Wasp is recorded against all the insects logged in Santiago (17 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.
