Scarabaeus rugosus
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Coast National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Rugged Sandveld Dung Beetle sighting in West Coast National Park on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 24th most-seen of the 44 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.
August
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Rugged Sandveld Dung Beetle in West Coast National Park on a given day, against under 5% in October to June, the lowest months. That is one of West Coast National Park's wettest months, with about 35 mm of rain against 5 mm in February.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Rugged Sandveld Dung Beetle sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only West Coast National Park, in our data
West Coast National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Rugged Sandveld Dung Beetle sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Scarabaeidae
The closest relatives of the Rugged Sandveld Dung Beetle that you can see in West Coast National Park (family Scarabaeidae, Scarabs) are Saldanha Protea Chafer (about 30%), Pachysoma hippocrates (about 20%) and Garden Fruit Chafer (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Rugged Sandveld Dung Beetle is recorded against all the insects logged in West Coast National Park (7 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.
