Resources

The following products by Frost Museum staff and affiliates are free to access, for personal and research use.

Field Guides

• Frost Museum (2022) Field guide to common plant galls of the Mid-Atlantic. Available at https://doi.org/10.26207/qxyp-rr50
• Nastasi LF and Davis CK (2022) Field guide to the herb and bramble gall wasps of North America. Available at https://doi.org/10.26207/rn61-fk81
• Smith Cecil (2023) Pocket Guide to Common Leafminers of Central Pennsylvania. Available at https://doi:10.26207/1cbp-hz43

Specimen Data

• Frost Entomological Museum (year). Frost Entomological Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/epw1ws accessed via GBIF.org on <date>

Educational Resources

• Celia Graef (2023) Macroinvertebrates - from Larvae to Adults. Available at https://doi:10.26207/f5pj-ac90

Policy and Procedure Documents

• The Insect Collectors’ Code
• Collecting insects in Pennsylvania
• Collections Management Policy
• SOP 01: Collection Organization, Environment, and Etiquette
• SOP 02: Museum Pest Management
• SOP 03: Specimen Preparation Guide
• SOP 04: Social Media
• SOP 05: Exit Protocols and Exit Clearance Procedures
• SOP 06: Loan agreement for Museum materials used in outreach
• SOP 07: Disaster Preparedness Plan
• SOP 08: Lab Instruction for ENT 432
• SOP 09: Capturing association data from depictions in TaxonWorks
• SOP 10: Loan Policy Statement
• SOP 11: Imaging slide-mounted specimens with Olympus compound microscope
• SOP 12: Digitizing pinned specimens with spreadsheets
  • Digitization spreadsheet (for digitizing fully prepared, accessioned specimens that were never databased)
  • ENT532 spreadsheet (for students of ENT 532 or new specimens to be databased)
• SOP 13: Georeferencing
• SOP 14: Outreach, tours, and more
• SOP 15: Shipping specimens
• SOP 16: Key access and responsibilities
• SOP 17: Voucher specimens
  • Voucher data spreadsheet
• SOP 18: Gall rearing
• SOP 19: Donation box management
• SOP 20: Ethanol-preserved specimen digitization
• SOP 21: Digitizing slides with flatbed scanner
• SOP 22: Transcribing depictions in TaxonWorks
• SOP 23: Transcribing slides in TaxonWorks
• SOP 24: Lab safety during pandemics
• SOP 25: Pitfall trapping
• SOP 26: Imaging with stereo microscope
• SOP 27: Imaging dry specimens with compound microscope
• SOP 28: Slide-mounting arthropods in Canada balsam
• SOP 29: Loan agreement for Museum equipment

The entire set of policies and procedure documents can be accessed on Penn State's ScholarSphere site.