Psyllobora variegata
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Table Mountain National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Variegated Fungus-Eating Lady Beetle sighting in Table Mountain National Park on a given day, based on 55 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 92nd most-seen of the 344 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.
March and September–December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Variegated Fungus-Eating Lady Beetle in Table Mountain National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–February and April–August, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Variegated Fungus-Eating Lady Beetle 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 Table Mountain National Park, in our data
Table Mountain National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Variegated Fungus-Eating Lady Beetle sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Coccinellidae
The closest relatives of the Variegated Fungus-Eating Lady Beetle that you can see in Table Mountain National Park (family Coccinellidae, Lady Beetles) are Asian Lady Beetle (about 20%), Lunate Lady Beetle (about 10%) and Sulfurous Lady Beetle (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Variegated Fungus-Eating Lady Beetle is recorded against all the insects logged in Table Mountain National Park (55 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.
