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

This paper presents and discusses 30 cases of cadavers that had been transferred for
forensic entomology investigations to the Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of …

Illegal harvesting is a serious threat to the persistence of many plant and animal taxa. The
combination of highly polymorphic DNA markers and new statistical methods called …

Forensic entomology is a branch of forensic science that incorporates insects as a part of
solving crime. Insect-based evidence recovered at a crime scene can be used to estimate …

Necrophagous flies that colonize human and animal corpses are extremely efficient at
locating and utilizing carrion. Adult flies deposit eggs or larvae on the ephemeral food …

Fly species that are commonly recovered on human corpses concealed in houses or other
dwellings are often dependent on human created environments and might have special …

The minimum postmortem interval (PMI min) is commonly estimated using calliphorid larvae,
for which there are established age estimation methods based on morphological and …

This study presents differences in rate of decomposition and insect succession between
exposed carcasses on the soil surface and those enclosed within a vehicle following carbon …

Seasonal and habitat calliphorid abundance and distribution were examined weekly for two
years (2001–2003) in Santa Clara County, California, using sentinel traps baited with bovine …

Simple Summary Forensic entomologists are most often tasked with determining when
arthropods colonized living or deceased vertebrates. In most cases, this estimation involves …