Excavator: Ground. In Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, Spooner (1946) observed the species nesting in all sorts of earth exposures, including the soil attached to the roots of fallen trees. Gardner (1901c) states that in Lancashire and Cheshire the nesting burrows are excavated gregariously, generally in banks at the sides of ditches. In Warwickshire, Morice (1889) also noted the species nesting in the side of a ditch.
A solitary species (Knerer & Schwarz, 1976).