Seasonal changes in temperature and day length are distinct between rural urban areas due to warming the presence of artificial light at night. Many studies have focused on impacts these ubiquitous signatures daily biological events, but empirical their insect seasonality limited. In present study, we used flesh fly Sarcophaga similis as a model determine urbanization incidence timing diapause ...

Sixteen larvae fell from the nose of a 16-year-old girl, who had been hospitalized in the anesthesia intensive care unit for 4 days because of a traffic accident and had been evaluated as E1M2V1 according to Glaskow Coma Scale. These larvae were examined macroscopically and microscopically and it was determined that they were second stage Sarcophage spp. larvae. There was no lesion in the nose ...

Prophenoloxidase (PPO) is a key enzyme associated with both melanin biosynthesis and sclerotization in insects. This enzyme is involved in three physiologically important processes viz., cuticular hardening, defense reactions and wound healing in insects. It was isolated from the larval hemolymph of Sarcophaga bullata and purified by employing ammonium sulfate precipitation, Phenyl Sepharose ch...

Introduction: This is the first report on insects associated with rabbit carcasses in indoor environment Kuching, Sarawak. Methods: study was conducted June till August of 2016. Rabbit (Oryctolagous cuniculus) which were used as animal model, placed inside a dark room building at Forensic Medicine Department Sarawak General Hospital. The fly larvae infesting collected until decomposition proces...