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title: "Yellow-faced Bumble Bee"
description: "Bombus vosnesenskii — Insekten & Spinnen. Bombus vosnesenskii, the yellow-faced bumblebee, is a species of bumblebee native to the west coast of North America, where it is distributed from British Columbia to Baja California."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/yellow-faced-bumble-bee
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Yellow-faced Bumble Bee

> Bombus vosnesenskii — Insekten & Spinnen. Bombus vosnesenskii, the yellow-faced bumblebee, is a species of bumblebee native to the west coast of North America, where it is distributed from British Columbia to Baja California.

- Scientific name: *Bombus vosnesenskii*
- Category: `insects` (Insekten & Spinnen)
- Habitats: `urban` (Stadt & Garten), `farm` (Bauernhof)
- iNaturalist observations: 57209
- Wikidata: [Q2483447](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2483447)
- iNaturalist taxon: [57689](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/57689)

## Names

- en: Yellow-faced Bumble Bee
- es: Abejorro de cara amarilla
- fr: Bourdon à face jaune

## Countries with the most observations

US (26892), CA (8935), MX (6)

## Summary

Bombus vosnesenskii, the yellow-faced bumblebee, is a species of bumblebee native to the west coast of North America, where it is distributed from British Columbia to Baja California. It is the most abundant species of bee in this range, and can be found in both urban and agricultural areas. Additionally, B. vosnesenskii is utilized as an important pollinator in commercial agriculture, especially for greenhouse tomatoes. Though the species is not currently experiencing population decline, urbanization has affected its nesting densities, and early emergence of the B. vosnesenskii has been implicated in the increasing…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombus_vosnesenskii

## Photo

![Yellow-faced Bumble Bee](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-faced-bumble-bee/medium.jpg)

Photo: Anna · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/33289514

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/yellow-faced-bumble-bee?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).