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Common Yellow Face Bee

Hylaeus communis

1,201Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
68Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr4
May44
Jun331
Jul465
Aug182
Sep31
Oct0
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England146
2Norfolk England60
3Cambridgeshire England51
4Kent England34
5Northamptonshire England27
6Oxfordshire England25
7Suffolk England24
8Gloucestershire England20
9North Lincolnshire England20
10Powys Wales19
11Devon England17
12Dorset England16
13Lincolnshire England16
14Rutland England16
15Gwynedd Wales16
1,087 England1 Scotland94 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 68 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,201
Peak month
July
Counties with records
68
Scientific name
Hylaeus communis
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,154
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Colletidae
Genus
Hylaeus
Name with authority
Hylaeus communis Nylander, 1852
Described
1852
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1969456 · GBIF 1349795