Necrophagous insects are important in the decomposition of cadavers. The close
association between insects and corpses and the use of insects in medicocriminal …

Forensic entomology uses insects to help law enforcement determine the cause, location,
and time of death of a human corpse as well as to detect poisons, drugs, and physical …

Forensic Entomology provides undergraduates with a concise introduction to the subject.
The book is written with the clarity necessary for students starting out in entomology yet …

Members of the Calliphoridae (blowflies) are significant for medical and veterinary
management, due to the ability of some species to consume living flesh as larvae, and for …

The utility of cytochrome oxidase I (COI) DNA barcodes for the identification of nine species
of forensically important blowflies of the genus Chrysomya (Diptera: Calliphoridae), from …

Unequivocal identification of fly specimens is an essential requirement in forensic
entomology. However, not all species can be determined at every developmental stage …

A revision of the species and families of sarcosaprophagous flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae,
Sarcophagidae, Muscidae, Fanniidae, Drosophilidae, Phoridae, Piophilidae and …

Traumatic myiasis, the parasitic infestation by fly larvae in traumatic lesions of the tissues of
living vertebrates, is a serious medical condition in humans and a welfare and economic …

Forensic entomology is a discipline that mainly uses insects collected in and around corpses
to estimate the post-mortem interval in medicocriminal investigations. Among all scavenger …

Forensic scientists are increasingly using DNA to identify the species of a tissue sample.
However, little attention has been paid to basic experimental design issues such as …