Polistes gigas
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taroko National Park | 🇹🇼 Taiwan |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Giant Brown Paper Wasp sighting in Taroko National Park on a given day, based on 27 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 73rd most-seen of the 447 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 and December
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Giant Brown Paper Wasp in Taroko National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January and October, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Giant Brown Paper Wasp sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Taroko National Park, in our data
Taroko National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Giant Brown Paper Wasp sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Polistes
The closest relatives of the Giant Brown Paper Wasp that you can see in Taroko National Park (genus Polistes, Umbrella Paper Wasps) are Rothney's Paper Wasp (about 20%), Polistes takasagonus (about 10%) and Polistes tenebricosus (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Giant Brown Paper Wasp is recorded against all the insects logged in Taroko National Park (27 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.
