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Volucella pellucens

11,473Records since 2000
JunePeak month
121Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb1
Mar0
Apr1
May394
Jun3,993
Jul3,910
Aug2,389
Sep449
Oct28
Nov0
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England406
2Norfolk England308
3Devon England276
4Kent England259
5Oxfordshire England253
6Highland Scotland248
7Cumbria England241
8North Yorkshire England239
9Dorset England216
10Cambridgeshire England194
11City of Edinburgh Scotland193
12Sefton England191
13Northamptonshire England188
14Suffolk England164
15Gwynedd Wales152
9,278 England1,182 Scotland846 Wales118 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 121 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
11,473
Peak month
June
Counties with records
121
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
10,085
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Volucella
Name with authority
Volucella pellucens (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
38

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1500730 · GBIF 1541799