Excavator: Ground. Nests are constructed in footpaths, trackside margins, meadows and in scrubby places, sand banks and loess deposits. The species will nest in aggregations of up to several hundred nests. It is a solitary species (Westrich, 1989). Boesi et al (2008) conclude that L. majus females, despite general solitary nesting, possess behavioural components enabling them to adopt, probably in high nest density areas, communal, nest-sharing strategies.
The nest burrow is weakly sinuous. The brood cells are of the sessile type and constructed progressively downwards. The lower blind burrow is at right angles to the main burrow. The cells are either horizontal or slanting slightly downward. The pollen ball is a flattened sphere, and the egg is laid on top of the food. After egg laying, the cell is sealed (Malyshev, 1936)