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title: "Bourdon vagabond"
description: "Bombus vagans — Insectes et araignées. The half-black bumblebee (Bombus vagans) is a small bumblebee with a wide distribution in North America, its range extending from Ontario to Nova Scotia and southward to Georgia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/half-black-bumble-bee
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Bourdon vagabond

> Bombus vagans — Insectes et araignées. The half-black bumblebee (Bombus vagans) is a small bumblebee with a wide distribution in North America, its range extending from Ontario to Nova Scotia and southward to Georgia.

- Scientific name: *Bombus vagans*
- Category: `insects` (Insectes et araignées)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 15513
- Wikidata: [Q2795860](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2795860)
- iNaturalist taxon: [128670](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/128670)

## Names

- en: Half-black Bumble Bee
- fr: Bourdon vagabond

## Countries with the most observations

US (6063), CA (5016), PM (15)

## Summary

The half-black bumblebee (Bombus vagans) is a small bumblebee with a wide distribution in North America, its range extending from Ontario to Nova Scotia and southward to Georgia. An endemic subspecies of this bee, known as Bolster's bumblebee (B. vagans ssp. bolsteri), occurs on the eastern Canadian island of Newfoundland.

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

## Photo

![Bourdon vagabond](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/half-black-bumble-bee/medium.jpg)

Photo: Samantha Gallagher · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/177688068

## Machine access

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