Polistes gigas
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taroko National Park | 🇹🇼 Taiwan |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Giant Brown Paper Wasp sighting in Taipei on a given day, based on 106 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 107th most-seen of the 765 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March to January
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Giant Brown Paper Wasp in Taipei on a given day, against under 5% in February, the lowest month.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Giant Brown Paper Wasp sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
4th of 7
Of the 7 cities where we can rate Giant Brown Paper Wasp sightings, Taipei ranks 4th at about 10%. The best odds are in Tuen Mun (China, about 20%), Fuzhou (China, about 10%) and Hong Kong (China, about 10%).
Same genus: Polistes
The closest relatives of the Giant Brown Paper Wasp that you can see in Taipei (genus Polistes, Umbrella Paper Wasps) are Rothney's Paper Wasp (about 10%), Dark-Waisted Paper Wasp (about 10%) and Polistes tenebricosus (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Giant Brown Paper Wasp is recorded against all the insects logged in Taipei (106 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.
