Xylocopa nigrita
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 White-Sided Large Carpenter Bee sighting in iSimangaliso Wetland Park on a given day, based on 10 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 168th 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.
April–May, July and November–February
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a White-Sided Large Carpenter Bee in iSimangaliso Wetland Park on a given day, against under 5% in March, June and August–October, the lowest months.
Between 2 and 5 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-Sided Large Carpenter Bee sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only iSimangaliso Wetland Park, in our data
iSimangaliso Wetland Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate White-Sided Large Carpenter Bee sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Xylocopa
The closest relatives of the White-Sided Large Carpenter Bee that you can see in iSimangaliso Wetland Park (genus Xylocopa, Large Carpenter Bees) are One-Striped Large Carpenter Bee (about 10%) and Big Red Large Carpenter Bee (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-Sided Large Carpenter Bee is recorded against all the insects logged in iSimangaliso Wetland Park (10 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.
