Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research int he Polish part of the Carpathian Basin from 1918
Haris, A.: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin 103 several smaller publications and conference papers, she provided further valuable fau- nistic data on Polish Tatras, Western Carpathian Mountains and Pieniny Mountains and other nature conservation areas of the Polish part of the Carpathian Basin (Dylewska 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1974a, 1981, 1983a, b, 1988, 1990a, b, 1991b, c, d, 1992a, b, 1995, 1996b, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, Dylewska and Bak 2004, Dylewska and Zablocki 1972, Dylewska and Wisniowski 1995,2001,2003, Werstak and Dylewska 2005, Dylewska and Kozik 2007). Tornász Huflejt (curator of Hymenoptera, Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsawa). Tomas Huflejt is co-author of a paper titled: "New records of the two alien mud daubers Sceliphron destillatorium (Illiger, 1807) and Sceliphon curvatum (Smith, 1870) (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) from Poland" (Wisniowski et al. 2013). Tadeusz Kazmierczak was bom on 14th February 1932 in Borszczowie (Tamopol province). Tadeusz started his primary school studies in Borszczowie. But soon, in 1940, he and his mother were deported by the USSR People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs to Kazakhstan (Semipalatinsk Oblast, Bolshaya Bukoh district, village Wozdwizenka). In September of 1945, they returned from Kazakhstan to Borschiv where he finished the primary school and the high school. In 1951, Tadeusz obtained certificate of secondary education and in the same year he passed the preliminary exams at the Technical University of Lvov, but he was not admitted for political reasons. Therefore, he worked at Institute of Epidemiology, Microbiology and Hygiene Research in Lviv as laboratory assistant. After 4 years, he was allowed to begin studies at the Faculty of Biology, University of Uzhhorod. In 1959, he returned to Poland. Kazmierczak continued his studies at the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, specializing in the field of zoology. In the next 3 years, he was assistant researcher in the Department of Nature Conservation of Academy of Sciences. In the next 2 years, he worked for the Provincial Sanitary-Epidemiological Station in Krakow as sanitary inspector. He changed job and started to work at the Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture in Krakow where he became associate professor. In 2002, Tadeusz Kazmierczak retired. His scientific output includes over 100 publications, he is member of Polish Zoological Society, Polish Entomological Society and Polish Society of Foresters. Professor Kazmierczak with co-authorship of Roze Kazmierczakowa and Andrzej Kosiór, wrote the monograph on the Bombini and Ichneumonidae fauna of Pieniny Mts. (Kazmierczakowa, Kazmierczak and Kosiór 1997). Very significant researches and investigations were performed on the ecology and faunistics of bumblebee bees and cuckoo bees, on their significance in nature conservation, on the changes their population densities with special focus on the Western Bieszczady Mts., Beskid Niski Mts, Pieniny National Park, Magursky Park Narodowy, Bieszczadów and Tatrzanski Park Narodowy by the research team of Instytut Ochrony Przyrody PAN (institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences). This group was coordinated by Andrzej Kosiór (Instimte of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Cracow, now retired) and his co-authors from the same institute: Róza Kazmierczakowa, Jan Fijal, Wieslaw Król, Piotr Plonka, Andrzej Kalemba, Joanna Korzeniak, Pawel Olejniczak, Wojciech Solarz and Zbigniew Witkowski (Kazmierczakova et al. 1997). Important part of their scientific outputs is the bumble bee research (Kosiór 1980, 1990, 2002, Kosiór, Król and Plonka 2001a, b, Kosiór, Plonka and Wizkowsi 1999, Kosiór et al. 2007,2008, Kosiór, Celary and Olejniczak 2007, Kosiór, Celary and Fijal 2003).
