🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Buff-tailed Bumble Bee live?

Bombus terrestris has 599,582 records in 82 countries and territories, from 1834 to 2026. Most records come from Netherlands.

Buff-tailed Bumble Bee
Buff-tailed Bumble Bee — Marco Almbauer / CC0 · source
AnimaliaArthropodaInsectaHymenopteraApidaeBombus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Netherlands 193,469
Germany 146,829
United Kingdom 116,082
Sweden 25,345
France 20,760
Belgium 19,998
Ireland 11,761
Spain 11,297
Switzerland 11,018
New Zealand 7,203
Finland 5,991
Austria 4,667
Portugal 4,475
Norway 3,703
Estonia 2,291
Chile 1,991
Poland 1,445
Italy 1,324
Denmark 1,122
Australia 1,076
Isle of Man 893
Argentina 856
Russia 837
Greece 605
Luxembourg 602
Ukraine 591
Serbia 490
Japan 347
Czechia 335
Jersey 220
Türkiye 183
Croatia 171
Israel 168
Hungary 136
Algeria 129
Morocco 120
South Korea 117
Lithuania 85
Belarus 73
Slovakia 73

Showing the top 40 of 82 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.