Polybia ruficeps
In 3 days ~60% in a week ~80%
| # | 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 |
No species of the same family or order lives in Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas, so these are its closest relatives here: other insects.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Red-Headed Polybia Wasp sighting in Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas on a given day, based on 8 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 4th most-seen of the 11 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September and October
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Red-Headed Polybia Wasp in Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas on a given day, against under 5% in May and June, the lowest months. Those are among Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas's driest months, with about 50 mm of rain a month against 190 mm in January.
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.
Only Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas, in our data
Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Red-Headed Polybia Wasp sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-Headed Polybia Wasp is recorded against all the insects logged in Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas (8 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.
