Stuart W. Frost
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Stuart W. Frost was a professor of entomology
at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
. He was born in Tarrytown, New York
, and graduated from Cornell University
. He was a specialist in leaf-mining flies
(Diptera
). The Frost Entomological Museum at Penn State was named in his honor.
Entomology
Entomology is the scientific study of insects, a branch of arthropodology...
at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
University Park, Pennsylvania
University Park, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated community in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States, and is the location of the flagship campus of the Pennsylvania State University....
. He was born in Tarrytown, New York
Tarrytown, New York
Tarrytown is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, about north of midtown Manhattan in New York City, and is served by a stop on the Metro-North Hudson Line...
, and graduated from Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
. He was a specialist in leaf-mining flies
Fließ
Fließ is a municipality in the Landeck district and is located5 km south of Landeck on the upper course of the Inn River. It has 9 hamlets and was already populated at the roman age; the village itself was founded around the 6th century. After a conflagration in 1933 Fließ was restored more...
(Diptera
Diptera
Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...
). The Frost Entomological Museum at Penn State was named in his honor.