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Orange-legged Furrow Bee

Halictus rubicundus

2,303Records since 2000
MayPeak month
97Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar33
Apr381
May533
Jun317
Jul285
Aug377
Sep195
Oct14
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland188
2Worcestershire England170
3Powys Wales97
4Isle of Anglesey Wales80
5City of Edinburgh Scotland79
6Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland72
7Lisburn and Castlereagh Northern Ireland54
8Gwynedd Wales46
9Kent England42
10Cumbria England37
11Aberdeenshire Scotland37
12Stirling Scotland37
13Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland35
14Pembrokeshire Wales34
15Cambridgeshire England29
1,104 England553 Scotland373 Wales162 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 97 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,303
Peak month
May
Counties with records
97
Scientific name
Halictus rubicundus
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,101
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Halictidae
Genus
Halictus
Name with authority
Halictus rubicundus (Christ, 1791)
Described
1791
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q611128 · GBIF 1353453