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Large Red Tailed Bumble Bee

Bombus lapidarius

68,667Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
123Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan12
Feb200
Mar2,221
Apr6,875
May7,405
Jun15,472
Jul20,356
Aug13,371
Sep1,753
Oct186
Nov26
Dec12

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England5,999
2Somerset England2,296
3City of Edinburgh Scotland1,827
4Devon England1,654
5Cambridgeshire England1,331
6Worcestershire England1,319
7Perth and Kinross Scotland1,148
8Oxfordshire England1,086
9Norfolk England1,072
10Gloucestershire England1,012
11North Yorkshire England999
12Cornwall England934
13East Lothian Scotland933
14Pembrokeshire Wales907
15Cumbria England902
53,702 England8,968 Scotland5,347 Wales253 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 123 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
68,667
Peak month
July
Counties with records
123
Scientific name
Bombus lapidarius
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
65,430
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Apidae
Genus
Bombus
Name with authority
Bombus lapidarius (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
59

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1950127 · GBIF 1340301