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title: "Vancouver Bumble Bee"
description: "Bombus vancouverensis — Insetos e aranhas. Bombus vancouverensis, the Vancouver Bumblebee, is a common species of eusocial bumblebee of the subgenus Pyrobombus."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/vancouver-bumble-bee
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Vancouver Bumble Bee

> Bombus vancouverensis — Insetos e aranhas. Bombus vancouverensis, the Vancouver Bumblebee, is a common species of eusocial bumblebee of the subgenus Pyrobombus.

- Scientific name: *Bombus vancouverensis*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: `mountains` (Montanhas)
- iNaturalist observations: 13028
- Wikidata: [Q101211048](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101211048)
- iNaturalist taxon: [1020304](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1020304)

## Names

- en: Vancouver Bumble Bee

## Countries with the most observations

CA (7097), US (3637)

## Summary

Bombus vancouverensis, the Vancouver Bumblebee, is a common species of eusocial bumblebee of the subgenus Pyrobombus. B. vancouverensis inhabits mountainous regions of western North America, where it has long been considered as a synonym of Bombus bifarius, and essentially all of the literature on bifarius refers instead to vancouverensis. B. vancouverensis has been identified as one of the two species of bumblebee observed to use pheromones in kin recognition. The other is the frigid bumblebee, Bombus frigidus.

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Steve Wells · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21891334

## Machine access

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