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White-tailed Bumble Bee

Bombus lucorum

40,355Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
127Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan26
Feb118
Mar1,577
Apr4,111
May4,562
Jun9,019
Jul10,714
Aug7,182
Sep2,143
Oct365
Nov26
Dec14

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England1,864
2Highland Scotland1,849
3Somerset England1,023
4Argyll and Bute Scotland998
5Devon England916
6Perth and Kinross Scotland805
7North Yorkshire England798
8Moray Scotland780
9Aberdeenshire Scotland770
10City of Edinburgh Scotland728
11Stirling Scotland662
12Lisburn and Castlereagh Northern Ireland641
13Worcestershire England632
14Cambridgeshire England630
15Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland626
22,490 England11,425 Scotland2,973 Wales546 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
40,355
Peak month
July
Counties with records
127
Scientific name
Bombus lucorum
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
38,158
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Apidae
Genus
Bombus
Name with authority
Bombus lucorum (Linnaeus, 1761)
Described
1761
Contributing datasets
53

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1602859 · GBIF 1340298