#3651 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Tricolored Bumble Bee

Bombus ternarius

LCleast concern 🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Bryan Pfeiffer · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Spencer Hardy · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Denis Doucet · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Kent McFarland · CC0
5. © Denis Doucet · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Warren, VT 05674, USA:© no rights reserved · CC0
7. Makinen, MN, US:© Adam Heikkila · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Lake Superior, Grand Marais, MN, US:© stevenjonthyme · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Enosburg, VT, USA:© cgbb2004 · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Hancock County, US-ME, US:© no rights reserved · CC0

what is it?

Bombus ternarius , commonly known as the orange-belted bumblebee or tricoloured bumblebee , is a yellow, orange and black bumblebee. It is a ground-nesting social insect whose colony cycle lasts only one season, common throughout the northeastern United States and parts of Canada. The orange-belted bumblebee forages on Rubus , goldenrods, Vaccinium , and milkweeds found throughout the colony's range. Like many other members of the genus, Bombus ternarius exhibits complex social structure with a reproductive queen caste and a...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 39,365iNaturalist 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.
39,365 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Thomas Say in 1837 (189 years ago).