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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iSimangaliso Wetland Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Scarlet Underwing sighting in iSimangaliso Wetland Park on a given day, based on 11 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 156th most-seen of the 316 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.
July
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Scarlet Underwing in iSimangaliso Wetland Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–February, May–June and August–October, the lowest months. That is one of iSimangaliso Wetland Park's driest months, with about 30 mm of rain against 130 mm in February.
Between 6 and 9 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Scarlet Underwing sightings with a recorded time, and about half of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Only iSimangaliso Wetland Park, in our data
iSimangaliso Wetland Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Scarlet Underwing sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Erebidae
The closest relatives of the Scarlet Underwing that you can see in iSimangaliso Wetland Park (family Erebidae, Underwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths) are Pleasant Hornet Moth (about 10%), Walker's Owl (about 10%) and African Peach Moth (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Scarlet Underwing is recorded against all the insects logged in iSimangaliso Wetland Park (11 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.
