#3648 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants

Yellow-faced Bumble Bee

Bombus vosnesenskii

LCleast concern 🐝 Bees, wasps & ants 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Thomas Barbin · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Dan Fitzgerald (Fitz) · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Thomas Barbin · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Eric Running · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Don Loarie · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © Sean McCann · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © David McCorquodale · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Minette Layne · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Bombus vosnesenskii , the yellow-faced bumblebee , is a species of bumblebee native to the west coast of North America, where it is distributed from British Columbia to Baja California. It is the most abundant species of bee in this range, and can be found in both urban and agricultural areas. Additionally, B. vosnesenskii is utilized as an important pollinator in commercial agriculture, especially for greenhouse tomatoes. Though the species is not currently experiencing population decline, urbanization has...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 57,585iNaturalist 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.
57,585 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1862 (164 years ago).