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Professor Mirosława DYLEWSKA, a zoologist-entomologist and specialist in apiology, died in Kielce on 18 June 2007 at the age of 80. She worked at the Institute of Animal Systematics and Evolution of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków. She published 80 papers on such fields of zoology as animal psychology, faunistics, taxonomy and phylogeny. In 1993 she founded the Section of Hymenopterology of the Polish Society of Entomology, which she chaired until her death. Professor DYLEWSKA was a co-organizer of 14 annual symposia on hymenopterology held in Ojców. Until the end of her life she strove to be an active researcher and stayed in contact with apiologists. She was in charge of bumblebee monitoring carried out in several national parks. Material on entomology collected by Prof. Mirosława DYLEWSKA can be found at the Institute of Animal Systematics and Evolution of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków. A part of the small collection of books on nature gathered by her was given away to private people and the remaining part was handed over to the library of the Ojców National Park.