#3642 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Brown-belted Bumble Bee

Bombus griseocollis

LCleast concern 🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Steven Mlodinow · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Tracey Fandre · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Thomas Shahan · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © bob15noble · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Steven Mlodinow · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Paweł Pieluszyński · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab · CC0
8. © mcaple · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Bombus griseocollis is a species of bumblebee known commonly as the brown-belted bumblebee . It is native to much of the United States except for the Southwest, and to the southernmost regions of several of the provinces of Canada.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 130,275iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
130,275 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Charles De Geer in 1773 (253 years ago).