“…Most of the reports on wild bees pollinating lucerne flowers come from North America (BOHART, 1957, etc.). In central and northern Europe, observations on wild bees pollinating lucerne are found both in the older papers of German authors (KNUTH, 1889;SCHAFFLER, 1932;UFER, 1932) and in more recent modern papers from Sweden (AKERBERG et LESINS, 1949), the USSR (POPOV, 1958;RASULOV, 1959), Poland (NOWAK, 1962) and Hungary (MOCZAR, 1954(MOCZAR, , 1959(MOCZAR, , 1961b(MOCZAR, , 1962, critically evaluating the importance of different species of wild bees. In Czechoslovakia, a preliminary report on insects pollinating lucerne was published by OBRTEL et SEDIV'~ (1965); BELAKOVA (1966) observed pollinators of lucerne in southern Slovakia.…”