BC Conservation Data Centre: Species Summary
Bombus huntii
Hunt's Bumble Bee
| Scientific Name: | Bombus huntii Greene, 1860 | ||||||||||
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| Scientific Name Synonyms: |
Bombus (Pyrobombus) huntii
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| English Name: | Hunt's Bumble Bee | ||||||||||
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| Scientific Name - Concept Reference: | Williams, P. H. 2008a. Bombus, bumblebees of the world. Static copy of web pages based on Williams, P.H. 1998. An annotated checklist of bumblebees with an analysis of patterns of description (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombini). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Entomology) 67:79-152. [website now defunct] | ||||||||||
| Classification Level: | Species | ||||||||||
| Species Group: | Invertebrate Animal | ||||||||||
| Species Code: | HY-BOMHUN | ||||||||||
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| Global Status: | G5 (Dec 2020) | ||||||||||
| Provincial Status: | S5 (Dec 2016) | ||||||||||
| BC List: | Yellow | ||||||||||
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| Global Reproduction Comments: | This is a ground-nesting bee (Williams et al. 2014). | ||||||||||
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N / N N / N N / N na / N |
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| Global Habitat Comments: |
This species is found in high desert scrub, as well as prairies and meadows in the northern part of its range (Williams et al. 2014). The distribution of this species in Mexico corresponds with pine vegetation (Labougle 1990). Many terrestrial habitat-checkoffs are based on an analysis of occurrence data and land-cover data by Chesshire et al. (2023). |
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| Provincial Phenology: (1st half of month/ 2nd half of month) |
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| Colonial Breeder: | N | ||||||||||
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| Global Range Comment: | This species occurs in North American, from southern Canada south to Mexico. It ranges from Sierra Nevada-Cascade crest east to the Colorado Rocky Mountains and into the Great Plains of northern United States and southern Canada. Records extend from California, east to western Minnesota, and south to southern Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico (Williams et al. 2014). In Mexico, it is restricted to the Central Mexican Plateau (Altiplano Mexicano), a large arid-to-semiarid plateau that extends from the U.S. border south to the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (Labougle 1990, Koch et al 2018). | ||||||||||
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| References and Related Literature | |||||||||||
Chesshire, P. R., E. E. Fischer, N. J. Dowdy, T. L. Griswold, A. C. Hughes, M. C. Orr, J. S. Ascher et al. 2023. Completeness analysis for over 3000 United States bee species identifies persistent data gap. Ecography: e06584. |
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Strange, J.P. 2015. Bombus huntii, Bombus impatiens, and Bombus vosnesenskii (Hymenoptera: Apidae) pollinate greenhouse-grown tomatoes in western North America. Journal of Economic Entomology 108(3): 873-879. |
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Williams, P.H., R.W. Thorp, L.L. Richardson, and S.R. Colla. 2014b. Bumble bees of North America: an Identification Guide. Princeton University Press. 208 pp. |
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Please visit the website Conservation Status Ranks for definitions of the data fields used in this summary report.
Suggested Citation:
B.C. Conservation Data Centre. Species Summary: Bombus huntii. B.C. Minist. of Environment. Available: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/ (accessed Jun 7, 2026).