[2][3] These potter wasps live in wet meadows,[4] in open landscapes, sometimes in gardens and in areas where their feeding and preferred nesting sites are present.

After mating the males die and the females overwinter and reappear in the spring.

[3] As adults, they eat plant juices, honeydew larvae and nectar of various flowers, mainly wild angelica (Angelica sylvestris),[4] hogweed (Heracleum), blackberry (Rubus fruticosus), nightshades (Solanaceae), goldenrod (Solidago) and thistle.

These nest consist of holes in wood or tubes, commonly in elder and bramble stems, with clay partitions.

These potter wasps lay an egg in each cell where they put various paralysed small caterpillars of micromoths, mainly Tortricidae.