Melipona costaricensis
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Costa Rican Melipona sighting in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve on a given day, based on 9 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 265th most-seen of the 506 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 November–March
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Costa Rican Melipona in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve on a given day, against under 5% in April–May and July–October, the lowest months.
Between noon and 3 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Costa Rican Melipona sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, in our data
Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Costa Rican Melipona sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Apidae
The closest relatives of the Costa Rican Melipona that you can see in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (family Apidae, Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, and Allies) are Red-Tailed Stingless Bee (about 30%), Eulaema polychroma (about 10%) and Narrow Stingless Bee (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Costa Rican Melipona is recorded against all the insects logged in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (9 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.
