#3551 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Field Cuckoo Bumble bee

🇳🇱 Gewone koekoekshommel ·Bombus campestris

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Станислав · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © NABU Nordvorpommern · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Станислав · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Sam R · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Vitae (Rikilt en VWA), 6708 PB Wageningen, Nederland:© dgcurrywheel · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 4761 AD Zevenbergen, Nederland:© Marlies van Popta · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 6121 HN Born, Nederland:© inhetgroen2024 · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 8426 Appelscha, Nederland:© Wesley Danes · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Ospel, Limburg, NL:© stan_kooremans · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Groesbeek, Nieuweweg 65, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Bombus campestris is a very common cuckoo bumblebee found in most of Europe.

base stats

NL sightings 96iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,718iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

Spotted 96 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #49 most seen of the bees, wasps & ants in NL.
4,718 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer in 1801 (225 years ago).