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Four-Colored Cuckoo-Bee

Bombus sylvestris

3,040Records since 2000
JunePeak month
96Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar22
Apr251
May642
Jun1,107
Jul539
Aug260
Sep64
Oct9
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland211
2Somerset England196
3Worcestershire England179
4Norfolk England118
5Devon England75
6Kent England71
7City of Edinburgh Scotland63
8Cumbria England61
9North Yorkshire England52
10Glasgow City Scotland45
11Oxfordshire England42
12South Lanarkshire Scotland42
13Gloucestershire England41
14Powys Wales40
15Suffolk England36
2,080 England696 Scotland201 Wales9 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 96 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,040
Peak month
June
Counties with records
96
Scientific name
Bombus sylvestris
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,955
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Apidae
Genus
Bombus
Name with authority
Bombus sylvestris (Lepeletier, 1832)
Described
1832
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1431874 · GBIF 1340333