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Buff-tailed Bumble Bee

Bombus terrestris

88,448Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
127Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan740
Feb2,067
Mar11,326
Apr15,752
May9,289
Jun14,033
Jul15,648
Aug11,971
Sep4,134
Oct1,470
Nov577
Dec703

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England10,098
2City of Edinburgh Scotland3,197
3Devon England2,487
4Cornwall England1,886
5Somerset England1,695
6Cambridgeshire England1,508
7Perth and Kinross Scotland1,494
8Oxfordshire England1,176
9Norfolk England1,174
10Worcestershire England1,133
11North Yorkshire England1,123
12Essex England1,105
13Pembrokeshire Wales1,085
14Medway England974
15Surrey England880
66,710 England15,044 Scotland5,384 Wales423 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
88,448
Peak month
April
Counties with records
127
Scientific name
Bombus terrestris
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
84,699
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Apidae
Genus
Bombus
Name with authority
Bombus terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
58

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q752274 · GBIF 1340503