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Mountain Bumble Bee

Bombus monticola

4,024Records since 2000
JunePeak month
57Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb3
Mar47
Apr375
May698
Jun1,271
Jul817
Aug485
Sep216
Oct15
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland1,146
2Worcestershire England391
3Perth and Kinross Scotland196
4Aberdeenshire Scotland179
5North Yorkshire England168
6Powys Wales154
7Cumbria England122
8Gwynedd Wales102
9Angus Scotland87
10Moray Scotland55
11Sheffield England51
12Ceredigion Wales42
13Scottish Borders Scotland40
14Stirling Scotland39
15Midlothian Scotland36
1,570 England1,969 Scotland447 Wales23 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 57 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,024
Peak month
June
Counties with records
57
Scientific name
Bombus monticola
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,953
Conservation designations
Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Apidae
Genus
Bombus
Name with authority
Bombus monticola Smith, 1849
Described
1849
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1976497 · GBIF 1340341