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Zygmunt Atanazy Mokrzecki (2 May 1865 – 3 March 1936) was a Polish entomologist and professor of agricultural entomology who worked in Imperial Russia and Poland. Among his pioneering works was the approach to trunk injection of nutrients and pesticides into horticultural trees.
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Zygmunt Atanazy Mokrzecki (2 May 1865 – 3 March 1936) was a Polish entomologist and professor of agricultural entomology who worked in Imperial Russia and Poland. Among his pioneering works was the approach to trunk injection of nutrients and pesticides into horticultural trees.
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Life and work Mokrzecki was born at Dzitryki near Lida, seventh son and last child of land owners Alexander and Kamila née Maszewka. His mother died when he was very young and he was raised by his maternal grandmother Hersylia at the estate of Winkowce where he grew up close to the fields and forests. He suffered from angina in early age. He studied at Lida before going to secondary school in Vilna and joined the forestry institute in St. Petersburg in 1884. Here he studied under Nicolas Cholodkowski, becoming interested in entomology. In 1888 his diploma thesis was on the management of the steppe forests of Veliko-Anadolsky. He was also influenced by the botanist Ivan Borodin and forestry specialist Alexander Rudzki. He worked as a forester in Kharkiv and corresponded with Marian Łomnicki at the Dzieduszycki Museum in Lviv on insects. In 1894 he became a member of the Copernicus Polish Society of Naturalists in Lviv and later at the Polish Geographical Society in Warsaw. In 1900 he spent his vacation in Warsaw examining the zoological and ornithological collections of Count Branicki. He visited Vilnius in 1910 to study insects in the gardens of the region. While at Kharkiv…