Sphex funerarius
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Sphex funerarius, the golden digger wasp, is a species of digger wasp of the family Sphecidae. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bavarian Forest National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 2 | Sierra de Guadarrama National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Golden Digger Wasp sighting in Vienna on a given day, based on 68 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 238th most-seen of the 1406 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.
June to August
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Golden Digger Wasp in Vienna on a given day, against under 5% in September to May, the lowest months. Those are among Vienna's wettest months, with about 90 mm of rain a month against 40 mm in February.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Golden Digger Wasp 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 8 cities where we can rate Golden Digger Wasp sightings, Vienna ranks 6th at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Warsaw (Poland, about 10%), Kharkiv (Ukraine, about 10%) and Kyiv (Ukraine, about 10%).
Same family: Sphecidae
The closest relatives of the Golden Digger Wasp that you can see in Vienna (family Sphecidae, Thread-waisted Wasps) are Yellow-Legged Mud-Dauber Wasp (about 10%), Mexican Grass-Carrying Wasp (about 10%) and Asian Mud-Dauber Wasp (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Golden Digger Wasp is recorded against all the insects logged in Vienna (68 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.
