Bombus flavidus
Yellowish cuckoo bumblebee
Apidae
Vancouver Island Lower Mainland Coast
Observation notes
Brown 1934: Agassiz; Hope; Mt.Cheam. Buckell 1951: Hope Mts.; Manning Park; Agassiz; Mt.Cheam; Vancouver; Newcastle Isl.; Departure Bay; Nanaimo. Tommasi et al. 2004: Greater Vancouver Area. Guzman et al., 2023: (Elle), 2005, Vancouver Island; (Gehrels), 2013, Abbotsford, Tsawwassen. NBSCBC Bee Atlas Database: (Young), 2022, Squamish. iNaturalist: Vancouver Island, Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley, from 2017. Note: B. fernaldae and B. flavidus are conspecific. The current use is B. flavidus (LR Best, personal communication).