#3546 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

White-tailed Bumble Bee

🇳🇱 Kleine aardhommel ·Bombus lucorum

🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Anita Sprungk · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © przese · CC BY 4.0
4. © Ina Siebert · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Netherlands:© wasdadan · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 6414 Heerlen, Niederlande:© Peter Bönnen · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 1093 ED Amsterdam, Nederland:© Marleen Schouten · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 1075 VR Amsterdam, Netherlands:© Cheryl · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Plantage, Amsterdam, Netherlands:© thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Bombus lucorum , the white-tailed bumblebee , is a species of bumblebee, widespread and common throughout Europe. This name has been widely used for a range of nearly identical-looking or cryptic species of bumblebees. In 1983, Scholl and Obrecht even coined the term Bombus lucorum complex to explain the three taxa ( B. lucorum, Bombus magnus , and Bombus cryptarum ) that cannot be easily differentiated from one another by their appearances. A recent review of all of these species worldwide...

base stats

NL sightings 115iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,079iNaturalist 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 115 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #44 most seen of the bees, wasps & ants in NL.
18,079 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1761 (265 years ago).