A univoltine species; late May to early September (Stanisavljević, 2000; Else & Edwards, 2018).
Parasites and predators The cleptoparasite Coelioxys inermis has been reared on a few occasions from British nests of this species. Specimens of the chalcid wasp Pteromalus apum have been reared from a Hampshire nest of this bee (pers. obs.).
Banaszak & Romasenko (1989) additionally cite Coelioxys mandibularis (Megachilinae) as a cleptoparasite of thsi species