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Hill Cuckoo-Bee

Bombus rupestris

2,434Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
71Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar20
Apr98
May309
Jun356
Jul878
Aug587
Sep69
Oct14
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England167
2Kent England116
3Oxfordshire England94
4East Riding of Yorkshire England84
5Gloucestershire England81
6Somerset England64
7Lincolnshire England62
8North Yorkshire England56
9Cambridgeshire England55
10Herefordshire, County of England47
11Cumbria England38
12Norfolk England37
13Powys Wales34
14East Lothian Scotland25
15Essex England23
2,280 England49 Scotland102 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 71 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,434
Peak month
July
Counties with records
71
Scientific name
Bombus rupestris
Also known as
Hill Cuckoo Bee
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,340
Conservation designations
Rare and scarce (non-IUCN status), Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Apidae
Genus
Bombus
Name with authority
Bombus rupestris (Fabricius, 1793)
Described
1793
Contributing datasets
21

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1404163 · GBIF 1340344