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 97 Important part of Milos's work are the bumblebee studies, Miklós studied their distribution, faunistics (for instance Bodrogköz or Romania), nature conservation, pollination ecology and endangering factors (Sárospataki, Novák and Molnár 2000, 2002a, b, c, 2003a,b, 2004,2005, Sárospataki and Havas 2009b, Ban-Calefariu and Sárospataki 2007, Sárospataki et al. 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016, Sárospataki and Bakos 2011, Bakos et al. 2011, Bakos, Saláta and Sárospataki 2011a, b, Sárospataki, Ádám and Bakos 2011, Bakos et al. 2012, 2013, Saláta et al. 2013, 2014, 2015, Bakos and Sárospataki 2012). Miklós and his team did very important investigations in wild bee faunistic and pollination ecology as well, like faunistic investigation on Naszály, dry grasslands of Hungary, Tihany Peninsula, abandoned mines, grasslands of The Netherlands and Switzerland, wild bee fauna of the Hungarian plains (Sárospataki Havas 2009a, Sárospataki and Fazekas 1995, Havas, Sárospataki and Józan 2008, Batáry et al. 2010, Sárospataki 1998, Sárospataki Havas and Pintér 2005, Sárospataki at. al. 2006, Sárospataki, Báldi and Batáry 2007, Sárospataki at. al. 2004, 2007, Batáry et al. 2007). They also tested the national biodiversity monitoring system for pollinators (Sárospataki, Menyhárt and Kovács 2003, Sárospataki and Havas 2006). Furthermore, Miklós and his group published few papers on the distribution and frequency of Megachile and Osmia spp. (Koczor and Sárospataki 2005, Batáry et al. 2005, Havas, Pocsai and Sárospataki 2008, Havas et al. 2011). In nature conservation, they studied the way of preservation of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, they completed quantitative ecological studies in the Pannonian grasslands, studied the effect of intensity of grazing for grassland biodiversity, effects of seminatural spots for pollinator communities, effect of landscape-structure for ecosystems of apple orchard and their flower visiting communities and the effect of disturbances for the wild bee communities (Báldi, Batáry, Erdős and Sárospataki 2006, Báldi et al. 2007, Batáry et al. 2005, Bihaly et al. 2015, Somay et al. 2013, Földesi et al. 2014, Vaskor et al. 2014, Bihaly, Vaskor and Sárospataki 2015, Sárospataki et al. 2015). They also investigated the effect of wild bee pollinators for the yield of apple orchards (Kovács-Hostyánszki et al. 2015). Michael Kuhlmann (25th July 1968 Hamnn (in Hessen, Germany) -) After finishing his high school, Michael graduated at Wilhelms Universität in Münster as biologist and habilitated in the same university where he worked 8 years after spending few years at Planungsbüro für Landschafts- und Tierökologie (Planning office for Landscape and Animal Ecology) in Geseke. Now, he is research entomologists of The Natural History Museum in London. In "Faunistik und Zoogeographie der Bienengattung Colletes Latreille, 1802" (Kuhlmann 2005), Kuhlmann listed the distribution of Colletes species including the countries of the Carpathian Basin. For instance, 12 species he mentions from Hungary and 5 species from Slovakia. Attila Haris (8th September 1968 Kaposvár - ). I was bom in Kaposvár and grown up in Kaposmérő. I graduated at Mihály Táncsics High School and received my university degree in Keszthely as a chemical-agricultural engineer: My university studies was started in Veszprém University and finished in Keszthely University. My interest in entomology started my early childhood when we spent our summer in our summer cottage at Fonyód and became more intensive in my age of 10 or 11 when I became member of the naturalist study group at the upper classes of elementary school under the guidance of Márta Pál. In that time, when I was between 11 and 16,1 collected all kind of insects mainly around Kaposmérő. I wrote my thesis on the sawfly pests on grass cultures and cereals under the supervision of János Szabolcs and I completed my PhD
