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Female on Centaurea. Fontanigge, Sečovlje salt-pans, Istra, August 2008.

 

Megachile maritima (Kirby, 1802)

 

 

European species, widely distributed in Slovenia.

Polylectic species. Nests in burrows in the ground, excavated by itself. Cells are made of scraps of leaves.

Probably partly bivoltine. Flies from May to September.

 

Razširjenost vrste v Sloveniji.

Zelo razširjena, a le ponekod pogosta vrsta.

 

 

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia