Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from 1920
94 Natura Somogyiensis János Bodor is plant protection specialist, worked for the Plant Protection Research Institute and he is active in publications from 1964, he specialised for the insect pests of stored grains, strawberry and those of Asparagus. He is also chief editor of a Hungarian horticultural journal titled "Kertészet és Szőlészet" (Horticulture and Viticulture). In this journal, János Bodor published a paper, titled "The mysterious leafcutter bees" in which he describes the life history of some economically important megachilid bees (Bodor 2003). On his other paper, he described the feeding behaviour of Mellinus arvensis L. (Bodor 1965). Júlia Katalin Jósvai scientific assistant of the Plant Protection Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Erzsébet Voigt (National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre: Fruit Cultivation Research Institute Budapest) and Miklós Tóth (see his biography above) studided the domimancy (species composition) of various Vespidae species in Hungarian vineyards and orchards and they found high dominantion of Vespula vulgaris and Vespula germanica against other Vespa, Vespula and Polistes spp. (Jósvai et al. 2007b). In other paper, titled "Damages caused by wasps and the possibilities of their control in the fruit and viticulture", they studied damages caused by Vespidae, their life history and their control giving the descriptions of various insect traps (Jósvai et al. 2007b). Peter J. Landolt (Research Entomologist and Research Leader at the USDA Yakima Agriculture Research Laboratory, previously Behavior and Basic Biology Laboratory, Gainesville, Florida). Dr. Landolt field of research includes insect behavior, pheromones, host plant kairomones and feeding attractants. His pheromone studies focus on sex attractants. He also researched the isolation and identification of host attractants and their effects for insect's host finding behavior. Peter Landolt with co-authorship of Miklós Tóth and Júlia Jósvai described a pheromone experiment executed in Hungary, in which they investigated the effect of different compounds in traps for Vespidae species. They got the following result: "Five species of social wasps were captured in trapping tests in Budapest (Hungary) that evaluated the attractiveness of acetic acid, iso- buthanol, 2-methyl-2-propanol, and heptyl butyrate. Both Vespula vulgaris (L.) and Vespula germanica (F), were captured in traps baited with isobuthanol, the combination of acetic acid and isobuthanol, and the combination of acetic acid and 2-methyl-2-propanol. V. germanica did not respond to acetic acid or to heptyl butyrate. V. vulgaris also responded to acetic acid alone, and 2-methyl-2-propanol alone, but did not respond to heptyl butyrate. Both V. germanica and V. vulgaris responded more strongly to the combinations of acetic acid with isobuthanol and acetic acid with 2-methyl-2-propanol, compared to any of these chemicals tested alone. Small numbers of European hornets, Vespa crabro L. were captured in traps baited with acetic acid with isobuthanol, but not with any other lures. Small numbers of Dolichovespula media (Retzius) were captured in traps baited with acetic acid, and with the combination of acetic acid and isobuthanol, but not with any other lures." Győző Szél (1958 Budapest - ) Coleoptera specialist, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. He graduated at Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences Budapest. Győző Szél in 2005 wrote a popular scientific paper on the breeding ecology of some Sphecoid wasps titled "Bölcsőépítő darazsak: Repülő sárdagasztók" (Vespiary-builder wasps: flying mud-kneaders) (Szél 2005).
