Buff-Tailed Bumble Bee

Where to see

Buff-Tailed Bumble Bee

Bombus terrestris

Nahuel Huapi National Park leads · 13 parks ranked by real sighting rates

Parks Ranked

Share of wildlife watchers reporting a Buff-Tailed Bumble Bee during a day in the park, from citizen-science data (GBIF)

#ParkCountrySighting
1 Nahuel Huapi National Park 🇦🇷 Argentina
~40%
2 Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park 🇨🇱 Chile
~40%
3 Tierra del Fuego National Park 🇦🇷 Argentina
~40%
4 Aoraki Mount Cook National Park 🇳🇿 New Zealand
~30%
5 Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~30%
6 Rakiura National Park 🇳🇿 New Zealand
~30%
7 Torres del Paine National Park 🇨🇱 Chile
~30%
8 Maria Island National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~30%
9 Abel Tasman National Park 🇳🇿 New Zealand
~30%
10 Fiordland National Park 🇳🇿 New Zealand
~20%
11 Arthur's Pass National Park 🇳🇿 New Zealand
~20%
12 Sierra Nevada National Park 🇪🇸 Spain
~20%
13 Freycinet National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~20%

Before you go

Which is the best park to see a Buff-Tailed Bumble Bee?

Nahuel Huapi National Park

In Nahuel Huapi National Park, Argentina, about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Buff-Tailed Bumble Bee sighting on a given day, the highest of the 13 parks where we can rate it, from GBIF citizen-science data.

Where else can you see a Buff-Tailed Bumble Bee?

Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park and more

After Nahuel Huapi National Park, the next-best odds of seeing a Buff-Tailed Bumble Bee are in Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park (Chile, about 40%), Tierra del Fuego National Park (Argentina, about 40%) and Aoraki Mount Cook National Park (New Zealand, about 30%). Outside South America, the best options are Aoraki Mount Cook National Park in Oceania (about 30%) and Sierra Nevada National Park in Europe (about 20%).

When is the best time to see a Buff-Tailed Bumble Bee?

It depends on the park

In the top parks, the best months are September and December–February in Nahuel Huapi National Park (about 50%), December in Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park (about 60%) and January and February in Tierra del Fuego National Park (about 50%), as the share of wildlife watchers who report a Buff-Tailed Bumble Bee on a given day. Each park's Buff-Tailed Bumble Bee page has the full month-by-month chart.