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title: "Hunt's Bumble Bee"
description: "Bombus huntii — Insectes et araignées. Bombus huntii is a species of bumblebee."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/hunt-s-bumble-bee
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Hunt's Bumble Bee

> Bombus huntii — Insectes et araignées. Bombus huntii is a species of bumblebee.

- Scientific name: *Bombus huntii*
- Category: `insects` (Insectes et araignées)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prairies et champs), `mountains` (Montagnes), `desert` (Désert)
- iNaturalist observations: 21321
- Wikidata: [Q928088](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q928088)
- iNaturalist taxon: [154043](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/154043)

## Names

- en: Hunt's Bumble Bee
- es: Abejorro de Hunt

## Countries with the most observations

US (12911), CA (4978), MX (279)

## Summary

Bombus huntii is a species of bumblebee. It is native to western North America, where it occurs in western Canada and the United States as far east as Ontario and Minnesota, and in Mexico as far south as the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. It is known commonly as the Hunt bumblebee or Hunt's bumblebee. This bee's whole genome has been recently sequenced as part of the Beenome100 project. 
This bee lives in desert scrub, prairies, and meadows. In the southern part of its range in Mexico it lives in pine ecosystems and it can be found at high elevations, such as the tops of tall volcanoes. The bee is active in summer and…

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

## Photo

![Hunt's Bumble Bee](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/hunt-s-bumble-bee/medium.jpg)

Photo: sentraevant · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/335144993

## Machine access

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