Polistes goeldii
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Polistes goeldii is a species of social paper wasp found in South America. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Piedras Blancas National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Goeldi's Paper Wasp sighting in Piedras Blancas National Park on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 82nd most-seen of the 117 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Goeldi's Paper Wasp in Piedras Blancas National Park on a given day, against under 5% in April to February, the lowest months. That is one of Piedras Blancas National Park's driest months, with about 65 mm of rain against 650 mm in October.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Goeldi's Paper Wasp sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Piedras Blancas National Park, in our data
Piedras Blancas National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Goeldi's Paper Wasp sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Goeldi's Paper Wasp is recorded against all the insects logged in Piedras Blancas National Park (6 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.
