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Female in a Campanula flower. Podpeč, Jezero, July 2008.

 

Melitta haemorrhoidalis (Fabricius, 1775)

 

 

Eurosiberian species, widely distributed in Slovenia.

Oligolectic, specialized on Campanula (Campanulaceae). Nests in burrows in the ground, excavated by itself.

Univoltine. Flies from July to September.

 

Male resting in a Campanula flower. Podpeč, Jezero, July 2008.

 

Razširjenost vrste v Sloveniji.

Nekoč zelo razširjena in pogosta vrsta je v zadnjih letih izginila v velikem delu svojega areala.

 

 

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Andrej Gogala: Bee fauna of Slovenia