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Large Garden Bumble Bee

Bombus ruderatus

889Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
29Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar11
Apr96
May59
Jun199
Jul322
Aug174
Sep24
Oct3
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England492
2Cambridgeshire England102
3Essex England47
4Lincolnshire England23
5Oxfordshire England14
6Somerset England9
7Suffolk England7
8Carmarthenshire Wales6
9Medway England6
10Bedford England6
11Northamptonshire England5
12West Berkshire England5
13Rutland England4
14Gloucestershire England3
15Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland2
875 England9 Wales2 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 29 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
889
Peak month
July
Counties with records
29
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Bombus ruderatus
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
850
Most recorded in
Kent, Cambridgeshire
Conservation designations
Rare and scarce (non-IUCN status), Biodiversity List – England, Biodiversity List – Wales, UK BAP priority species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Apidae
Genus
Bombus
Name with authority
Bombus ruderatus (Fabricius, 1775)
Described
1775
Contributing datasets
13

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q263784 · GBIF 1340383