Bombus hypnorum
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
The tree bumblebee or new garden bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) is a species of bumblebee common [on] the European continent and parts of Asia. Since the start of the twenty-first century, it has spread to Great Britain and Ireland. These bumblebees prefer habitats that others do not, allowing them to pollinate flowers in areas that many other species do not get to.
Bombus hypnorum has a short proboscis and a rounded head. The thorax is usually of a uniformly ginger color (but examples with a darker, or even black thorax occur), the abdomen is covered in black hair, and the tail is always white. In workers, the first tergite (abdominal segment) is black-haired, but a proportion of males may have ginger hairs intermixed with the black hair, both on the face and on the first abdominal tergum. On the European continent, individuals with extended yellow coloration exist. Workers are often (but not always) small, while drones are much bigger in comparison. The queens vary in size.
Bombus hypnorum is part of the genus Bombus. Its closest genetic relatives are B. jonellus and B. sichelli. B. hypnorum is a common bumblebee species... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cairngorms National Park | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 2 | Aigüestortes National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 3 | Snowdonia National Park | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 4 | Bavarian Forest National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 5 | Wadden Sea National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 6 | Pyrénées National Park | 🇫🇷 France |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liverpool | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 2 | Manchester | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 3 | Birmingham | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 4 | Helsinki | 🇫🇮 Finland | |
| 5 | Leeds | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 6 | Warsaw | 🇵🇱 Poland | |
| 7 | Copenhagen | 🇩🇰 Denmark | |
| 8 | Novosibirsk | 🇷🇺 Russia | |
| 9 | Hamburg | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 10 | Minsk | 🇧🇾 Belarus |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Tree Bumble Bee sighting in Pyrénées National Park on a given day, based on 15 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 547th most-seen of the 1277 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May–August and November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Tree Bumble Bee in Pyrénées National Park on a given day, against under 5% in September–October and December–April, the lowest months.
Between noon and 3 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Tree 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.
Among the best
Of the 6 parks where we can rate Tree Bumble Bee sightings, Pyrénées National Park ranks 6th at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Cairngorms National Park (United Kingdom, about 10%), Aigüestortes National Park (Spain, about 10%) and Snowdonia National Park (United Kingdom, about 10%).
Same genus: Bombus
The closest relatives of the Tree Bumble Bee that you can see in Pyrénées National Park (genus Bombus, Bumble Bees) are Common Carder Bumble Bee (about 20%), White-Tailed Bumble Bee (about 10%) and Black-Backed Bumble Bee (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Tree Bumble Bee is recorded against all the insects logged in Pyrénées National Park (15 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
