#3602 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Heath Bumble Bee
🇳🇱 Veenhommel ·Bombus jonellus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Miriam Öttl · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Johan Wettergren · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Jukka Jantunen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Imogen Bentley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Keith W. Larson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Til Mann · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Benoit NABHOLZ · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. © Morten DD Hansen · CC0
- 9. © NiC · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Hauke Koch · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The heath humble-bee or small heath bumblebee , Bombus jonellus , is a species of bumblebee, widely distributed in Europe and northern Asia, as well as northern North America.
base stats
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 34 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,988 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by William Kirby in 1802 (224 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Heath Bumble Bee
- Nederlands
- Veenhommel
- scientific name
- Bombus jonellus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Apidae
- IUCN Red List
- DD · data deficient
- in NL
- native
- sightings in NL
- 34
- sightings in Europe
- 1,200
- sightings worldwide
- 1,988
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,188
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1802 by William Kirby
IUCN in Dutch: onvoldoende gegevens. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Apidae
#3503 📷 10Western Honey Bee
🇳🇱 Europese honingbij
Apis mellifera
DD 👀 3.2k in NL
#3504 📷 9Common Carder Bumble Bee
🇳🇱 Akkerhommel
Bombus pascuorum
LC 👀 3k in NL
#3507 📷 10Early Bumble Bee
🇳🇱 Weidehommel
Bombus pratorum
👀 865 in NL
#3509 📷 8Red-tailed Bumble Bee
🇳🇱 Steenhommel
Bombus lapidarius
👀 613 in NL
#3511 📷 10Tree Bumble Bee
🇳🇱 Boomhommel
Bombus hypnorum
LC 👀 589 in NL
#3517 📷 7Buff-tailed Bumble Bee
🇳🇱 Aardhommel
Bombus terrestris
👀 367 in NL
#3533 📷 10Garden Bumble Bee
🇳🇱 Tuinhommel
Bombus hortorum
👀 179 in NL
#3536 📷 7Vestal Cuckoo Bumble bee
🇳🇱 Grote koekoekshommel
Bombus vestalis
👀 159 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 452446, Wikidata Q2121557, GBIF 1340308, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.