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Vestal Cuckoo Bee

Bombus vestalis

8,401Records since 2000
JunePeak month
89Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb11
Mar195
Apr1,053
May981
Jun2,802
Jul2,428
Aug657
Sep53
Oct12
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England969
2Somerset England465
3Cambridgeshire England353
4Worcestershire England236
5Norfolk England230
6Oxfordshire England205
7East Riding of Yorkshire England187
8Lincolnshire England163
9Medway England153
10Suffolk England132
11Northamptonshire England126
12Gloucestershire England124
13Sefton England116
14Essex England108
15Milton Keynes England98
8,038 England152 Scotland206 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 89 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
8,401
Peak month
June
Counties with records
89
Scientific name
Bombus vestalis
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
8,088
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Apidae
Genus
Bombus
Name with authority
Bombus vestalis (Geoffroy, 1785)
Described
1785
Contributing datasets
22

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q376137 · GBIF 1340418