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Ivy Bee

Colletes hederae

10,833Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
77Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb1
Mar3
Apr4
May0
Jun8
Jul12
Aug474
Sep7,052
Oct3,171
Nov61
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England760
2Cornwall England633
3Norfolk England597
4Oxfordshire England509
5Cambridgeshire England427
6Suffolk England363
7Devon England284
8Surrey England259
9Northamptonshire England215
10Dorset England212
11Rutland England196
12Sefton England168
13Essex England149
14Worcestershire England147
15Gloucestershire England122
10,356 England10 Scotland465 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 77 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
10,833
Peak month
September
Counties with records
77
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Colletes hederae
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
10,191
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Colletidae
Genus
Colletes
Name with authority
Colletes hederae Schmidt & Westrich, 1993
Described
1993
Contributing datasets
11

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q451843 · GBIF 1348914