Endangered
Fragrant Bumble Bee
Bombus fragrans
Fragrant Bumble Bee is a wasp, bee, or ant in the family Apidae (order Hymenoptera) — Bombus fragrans, recorded as Endangered and tied to Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Russia.
Appearance
It is a relatively large, pale yellow bumblebee.
Range and habitat
This bumblebee is the largest in Europe and is natively distributed in the Russian and Ukrainian steppes. This species is seriously threatened due to the intensification of agriculture, that is destroying its natural habitat.
GBIF currently lists 719 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Life history
Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.
In crisis
Today its population has been reduced by 50%.
Fragrant Bumble Bee is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the Spanish Wikipedia article on Bombus fragrans, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q1858329 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
