Polistes arizonensis
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saguaro National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mesa | 🇺🇸 United States |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report an Arizona Paper Wasp sighting in Saguaro National Park on a given day, based on 127 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 22nd most-seen of the 354 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March–May and July–November
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report an Arizona Paper Wasp in Saguaro National Park on a given day, against about 10% in June and December–February, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Arizona Paper Wasp sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Saguaro National Park, in our data
Saguaro National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Arizona Paper Wasp sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Polistes
The closest relatives of the Arizona Paper Wasp that you can see in Saguaro National Park (genus Polistes, Umbrella Paper Wasps) are Yellow Paper Wasp (about 10%), Comanche Paper Wasp (about 10%) and Horse Paper Wasp (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Arizona Paper Wasp is recorded against all the insects logged in Saguaro National Park (127 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.
