A univoltine species.The flight period is from mid June to late August (Else & Edwards, 2018; Stanisavljević, 2000)
Parasites: None known in Britain. In continental Europe, the bee Stelis minima is a cleptoparasite of this species (Höppner, 1898; Pittioni, 1949; Banaszak & Romasenko,1998; Peeters, Raemakers & Smit, 1999; Stanisavljević, 2000).