A polylectic species. Mavromoustakis (1948; 1951; 1953; 1954) reports visitation to Saponaria.(Caryophyllaceae); Amygdalus communis, Pyrus communis, Crataegus azarolus, Prunus domestica (Rosaceae) and Sinapis alba (Brassicaceae); Quercus lusitanica infectoria (Fagaceae); Calendula persica (Asteraceae); Pistacia lentiscus, Pistacia terebinthus (Anacardiaceae); Tordylium syriacum (Apiaceae); Styrax officinalis (Styracaceae); Tamarix sp. (Tamaricaceae); Salix alba (Salicaceae); Cistus villosus (Cistaceae); Arbutus andrachne (Ericaceae) in Cyprus.
Pittioni (2014; accessed 2017) reports foraging at Conyza canadensis, Centaurea sp. (Asteraceae) in Austria (presumably second brood females).
Radchenko (2015) states that it visits the flowers of plants from 11 families: Brassicaceae (Barbarea vulgaris, Sinapis arvensis, Lepidium draba, Erucastrum armoracioides, Crambe tataria, Sisymbrium orientale, Berteroa incana, etc.), Asteraceae (Xeranthemum annuum, Coreopsis grandiflora), Lamiaceae (Salvia nemorosa), Euphorbiaceae (Euphorbia), Fabaceae (Robinia pseudacacia), Papaveraceae (Papaver rhoeas), Plumbaginaceae (Limonium), Apiaceae (Eryngium campestre, Aegopodium podagraria, Falcaria, Daucus, Anthriscus, etc.), Boraginaceae (Cynoglossum), Lythraceae (Lythrum salicaria) and Campanulaceae (Campanula rapunculoides) (Osytshnjuk 1977, Radchenko 1982, Dylewska 2000), but it is thought to prefer Brassicaceae, Asteraceae and Apiaceae. In Greece, the males of Andrena transitoria have been recorded as pollinators of Ophrys melena (Orchidaceae) through pseudocopulation (Paulus and Salkowski 2007).