Critically Endangered
Bombus variabilis
Bombus variabilis
Bombus variabilis is a wasp, bee, or ant in the family Apidae (order Hymenoptera), recorded as Critically Endangered.
Appearance
The bee features have a dark face with yellow hair in its vertex and with dark brown wings. For females, they only have black abdomens but males can vary in their hair color patterns.
Range and habitat
Bombus variabilis is a critically endangered species of cuckoo bumblebee that occurs in North America.
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
It has not been observed in the United States in at least 20 years and is potentially extirpated or extinct. The decline of the latter as hosts can partially be linked to the decline of B. Variabilis.
Bombus variabilis is Critically 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 English Wikipedia article on Bombus variabilis, Wikidata item Q2511750. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
