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Male on Tanacetum vulgare. Jarški prod, Sava river, Ljubljana, August 2004.

 

Colletes fodiens (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)

 

 

European species. In Slovenia along the Sava river near Ljubljana and in the Ljubljansko barje (pre-Alpine region).

Oligolectic, specialized on Asteraceae (e.g. Tanacetum). Nests in burrows in the ground, excavated by itself.

Univoltine. Flies in July and August.

 

Razširjenost vrste v Sloveniji.

Edino pomembno najdišče je Jarški prod ob reki Savi pri Ljubljani, kjer pa je vrsta ogrožena zaradi uničevanja habitatov.

 

 

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia