Polistes veracrucis
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cumbres de Monterrey National Park | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monterrey | 🇲🇽 México |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Veracruz Paper Wasp sighting in Cumbres de Monterrey National Park on a given day, based on 17 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 153rd most-seen of the 431 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.
June and September–December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Veracruz Paper Wasp in Cumbres de Monterrey National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–May and July–August, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Veracruz Paper Wasp sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Cumbres de Monterrey National Park, in our data
Cumbres de Monterrey National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Veracruz Paper Wasp sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Polistes
The closest relatives of the Veracruz Paper Wasp that you can see in Cumbres de Monterrey National Park (genus Polistes, Umbrella Paper Wasps) are Neotropical Red Paper Wasp (about 10%), Unstable Paper Wasp (about 10%) and Horse Paper Wasp (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Veracruz Paper Wasp is recorded against all the insects logged in Cumbres de Monterrey National Park (17 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
