Bombus mckayi
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wrangell-St. Elias National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Kluane National Park | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anchorage | 🇺🇸 United States |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a McKay's Western Bumble Bee sighting in Anchorage on a given day, based on 49 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 3rd most-seen of the 59 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a McKay's Western Bumble Bee in Anchorage on a given day, against under 5% in October to March, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most McKay's Western Bumble Bee sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Anchorage, in our data
Anchorage is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate McKay's Western Bumble Bee sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Bombus
The closest relatives of the McKay's Western Bumble Bee that you can see in Anchorage (genus Bombus, Bumble Bees) are Yellow-Fronted Bumble Bee (about 20%), Frigid Bumble Bee (about 10%) and Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the McKay's Western Bumble Bee is recorded against all the insects logged in Anchorage (49 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
