#3620 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Hill Cuckoo Bumble bee
🇳🇱 Rode Koekoekshommel ·Bombus rupestris
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what is it?
Bombus rupestris is a species of cuckoo bumblebee present in most of Europe except Iceland and the Balkans. It is also found in Turkey.
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 15 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,271 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793 (233 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Hill Cuckoo Bumble bee
- Nederlands
- Rode Koekoekshommel
- scientific name
- Bombus rupestris
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Apidae
- sightings in NL
- 15
- sightings in Europe
- 3,890
- sightings worldwide
- 5,271
- GBIF records in NL
- 908
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1793 by Johan Christian Fabricius
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 127735, Wikidata Q1404163, GBIF 1340344, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.