Effect of Lorazepam on the Development of the Hairy Maggot Blow Fly, Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart): Implication for Forensic Entomology

Entomotoxicology is based on using insect evidence recovered from a dead body to find out the cause and time of death. Drugs can accumulate in fly larvae when they ingest flesh deceased persons alter normal development causing implications calculating postmortem intervals. Lorazepam an antidepressant generally used treat anxiety. Larvae Chrysomya rufifacies were fed beef liver mixed with lorazepam study effect developmental rate count delay interval. grown different doses showed delayed as compared larvae. The life cycle durations experimental cultures concentrations completed 1 ppm (272.56 hrs), 2 (289.23 3 (324.10 4 (350.72 while control culture 257.26 hrs. length, weight, width treated smaller than untreated culture. Length, decreased increased concentration lorazepam. This ultimately affects That why prior knowledge flies respect various drugs needs be studied, these baseline data calculate interval