#3658 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Black-tailed Bumble Bee

Bombus melanopygus

LCleast concern 🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Sean McCann · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Eddie Dunbar · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Liz Osborn · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © BJ Stacey · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Cook County, MN, USA:© Tony Ernst · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Colwood, BC, Canada:© Parks Canada @ Fort Rodd Hill · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Mount Vernon, WA, USA:© no rights reserved · CC0
8. lassen np:© Matt Berger · CC BY 4.0
9. Nanaimo, BC, Canada:© lyndas · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 33rd St, East Sac, CA, USA:© rmyoshihara · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Bombus melanopygus , the black-tailed bumble bee , black tail bumble bee or orange-rumped bumblebee , is a species of bumblebee. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California, and as far east as Idaho.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 28,825iNaturalist 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.
28,825 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by William Nylander in 1848 (178 years ago).