Haris Attila: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin - Natura Somogyiensis 29. (Kaposvár, 2016)
History of the Aculeata research in Hungary from 1920
Haris, A.: Hymenoptera Research in the Carpathian Basin 95 Imre Fazekas microplepidoptera specialist. Imre Fazekas works for the Regiograph Institute in Komló, previously, he was curator of the natural history collection of Komló Museum. With Csaba Szinetár, they studied the breeding ecology of Sceliphron destilla- torium Illiger (Szinetár and Fazekas 2012), Imre Fazekas also published a paper on the occurrence of invasive Sceliphron curvatum in the Mecsek Mts. (South Hungary) (Fazekas 2012). He graduated at Pécs Pedagogical College where he received biology and agriculture, and later physical education teacher degree. In 1993, he graduated in environmental protection at Janus Pannonius University of Sciences in Pécs. He is editor of Acta Naturalia Pannonica, and till 2006 worked for Folia Comloensis either. Csaba Szinetár (27th May 1960 Szentgotthárd -) Spider specialist, professor of zoology at Pedagogical College in Szombathely (part of Western Hungarian University). He graduated at Lóránd Eötvös University of Sciences as biology-chemistry teacher. With Imre Fazekas, they published the list of spider species found in nests of Sceliphron des- tillatorium Illiger (Szinetár and Fazekas 2012). Sabine Steghaus-Kovac (10th July 1960 Frankfurt am Main - ) zoologist, freelance writer of Tessloff publisher. Sabine is married and has two grown up children and a little grandson. She graduated at Frankfurt's Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in biology. During the time of her doctoral studies, she had three years living in Malaysia. Since then, she's been working as freelance science journalist for various media, including the prestigious international journal Science, a Frankfurt newspaper, but also for various public entities. Her popular scientific work publisehd in the series of" Was ist was", titled "Bienen, Wespen und Ameisen" was translated and published in Hungary, in 2005 (Steghaus-Kovac 2005). Gábor Zanathy (1962 - 22nd December 2015) associate professor of Department of Viticulture at Institute of Viticulture and Enology of Budapest Corvinus University. Gábor graduated at Budapest University of Horticulture. His first job was at Vörösmarty cooperative farm, as farm manager in Főt. After 2 years in agricultural production, he joined to University of Horticulture in Budapest. He published one paper on the harm caused by Vespidae species in wine yard. He discussed their life history and described a trap for the pests (Zanathy 2011). Mario Boni Bartalucci, Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Universitá degli Studi di Firenze. Baralucci in his monograph, titled "European Myzininae (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae)" reported data of 2 species from Pest and Fülöpháza from Hungary and also 2 species from Slovakia: Stúrovo (Párkány), Nitra (Nyitra), Chotin (Hetény), Somotor (Szomotor) etc. (Bartalucci 2012). Miklós Sárospataki (11th May 1963 Budapest - ) Docent of Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology of Szent István (King Saint Stephen) University at Gödöllő. Miklós graduated at Attila József University of Sciences in Debrecen. Later, he completed his skills with teacher degree at the University of Sciences in Budapest. With help of an academic scholarship, he worked 3 years in Plant Protection Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Finishing these 3 years academic scholarship, Miklós got employment at University of Agriculture in Gödöllő (now it is the Gödöllő faculty of Szent István (King Saint Stephen) University) where he's been teaching till present days. His wife, Judit Fazekas is also biologist and co-author of Miklós Sárospataki. Miklós is the president and founder of Tölgy (Oak) Nature Conservation
