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Common Carder Bee

Bombus pascuorum

124,859Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
125Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb29
Mar1,617
Apr11,441
May17,327
Jun20,645
Jul23,737
Aug29,034
Sep16,120
Oct3,735
Nov176
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England8,859
2Somerset England6,588
3Devon England4,110
4City of Edinburgh Scotland3,331
5Perth and Kinross Scotland2,169
6Highland Scotland2,104
7North Yorkshire England2,091
8Cornwall England1,980
9Cambridgeshire England1,821
10Worcestershire England1,553
11Gloucestershire England1,527
12Norfolk England1,490
13Oxfordshire England1,443
14Medway England1,379
15Stirling Scotland1,351
90,473 England21,776 Scotland8,539 Wales1,018 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
124,859
Peak month
August
Counties with records
125
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Bombus pascuorum
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
117,171
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Apidae
Genus
Bombus
Name with authority
Bombus pascuorum (Scopoli, 1763)
Described
1763
Contributing datasets
69

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q267532 · GBIF 1340405