Skip to main content
. 2015 Dec 30;(3):e6833. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e6833

Table 1.

Relative abundance of Bombus species in the contiguous United States and Alaska by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) ecoregion status (Olson and Dinerstein 2002, Olson et al. 2001). WWF ecoregion status is grouped into three broad categories: critical or endangered, vulnerable, and relatively stable or intact.

Species # of Ecoregions # of Specimens Ecoregion Status
Critical or Endangered (%) Vulnerable (%) Relatively Stable
or Intact (%)
B. affinis 2 22 100 0 0
B. appositus 13 260 19 54 27
B. auricomus 11 502 86 0 14
B. balteatus 5 55 0 36 64
B. bifarius 19 2870 35 35 30
B. bimaculatus 14 1042 91 9 0
B. borealis 7 25 76 20 4
B. californicus 10 104 62 17 21
B. caliginosus 4 75 95 5 0
B. centralis 15 663 20 25 56
B. citrinus 3 11 100 0 0
B. fernaldae 13 91 41 48 11
B. fervidus 19 162 80 7 13
B. flavifrons 25 910 40 19 41
B. fraternus 5 16 75 25 0
B. frigidus 8 98 0 19 81
B. griseocollis 29 2042 89 7 4
B. huntii 13 577 24 11 65
B. impatiens 18 3138 90 9 0
B. insularis 18 288 36 30 34
B. jonellus 7 72 0 0 100
B. melanopygus 18 278 37 39 24
B. mixtus 21 945 50 41 9
B. moderatus 5 39 0 0 100
B. morrisoni 6 25 32 0 68
B. nevadensis 11 108 45 26 29
B. occidentalis 17 415 6 9 86
B. pensylvanicus 16 530 98 1 2
B. perplexus 8 69 67 16 17
B. rufocinctus 17 395 64 11 25
B. sandersoni 1 1 0 100 0
B. sitkensis 12 203 38 38 24
B. suckleyi 3 19 26 68 5
B. sylvicola 13 199 8 31 61
B. ternarius 6 291 92 1 6
B. terricola 5 31 0 52 48
B. vagans 14 346 66 32 3
B. vandykei 6 44 78 9 13
B. vosnesenskii 8 959 87 13 0