Hemiempusa capensis
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Garden Route National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Giant Conehead Mantis sighting in Garden Route National Park on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 125th most-seen of the 298 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.
February–April and September–December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Giant Conehead Mantis in Garden Route National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January and May–August, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Giant Conehead Mantis sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is seen both by day and at night.
Only Garden Route National Park, in our data
Garden Route National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Giant Conehead Mantis sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Mantodea
The closest relatives of the Giant Conehead Mantis that you can see in Garden Route National Park (order Mantodea, Mantises) are South African Mantis (about 10%) and Polyspilota caffra (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Giant Conehead Mantis is recorded against all the insects logged in Garden Route National Park (13 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.
