About Earthynature of Britain
  1. Home
  2. Species
  3. Early Bumble Bee
Species · Bees, wasps and ants

Early Bumble Bee

Bombus pratorum

38,075Records since 2000
JunePeak month
126Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan20
Feb259
Mar2,412
Apr4,223
May11,177
Jun12,464
Jul4,542
Aug2,054
Sep303
Oct50
Nov34
Dec25

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England2,500
2Somerset England2,021
3Devon England1,339
4Highland Scotland998
5City of Edinburgh Scotland846
6Worcestershire England772
7Cambridgeshire England690
8Cornwall England682
9Norfolk England635
10North Yorkshire England608
11Aberdeenshire Scotland485
12Perth and Kinross Scotland472
13Oxfordshire England471
14Cumbria England452
15Powys Wales444
28,163 England6,157 Scotland2,538 Wales317 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 126 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
38,075
Peak month
June
Counties with records
126
Scientific name
Bombus pratorum
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
34,672
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Apidae
Genus
Bombus
Name with authority
Bombus pratorum (Linnaeus, 1761)
Described
1761
Contributing datasets
53

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q203691 · GBIF 1340305