ABSTRACT Insects attracted to cadavers can be used estimate postmortem interval (PMI). In this study, inmature stages and adults of Dermestes maculatus Chrysomya albiceps were collected in association with a human cadaver closed aquatic environment Caquetá, Colombia, analyzed determine the PMI. We also conducted an experiment pig carcass emersion time, which began three days after submersion. T...

a coloured plate illustrating its life-history, and notes of 40 cases of cutaneous myiasis, will appear in due course in the Indian Journal of Medical Research. As some time must elapse before this paper is published, I thought it might interest Medical and Veterinary Officers if I briefly stated the results of this investigation. On hatching out the first specimens of the fly, I thought it was...

Forensically important entomological specimens recovered from 95 forensic cases of human cadavers from April 1993 to May 1996 in Malaysia were identified and analysed. The results indicated that 73.7% of these specimens were Chrysomya species, occurring either as single or mixed infestations. Of these, the most prominent species were Ch megacephala (F.) and Ch rufifacies (Macquart). Other fly m...

The black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens (L.), is thought to colonize corpses 20-30 days postmortem. However, recent observations indicate this might not be true for all cases. Therefore, we conducted a study examining colonization by the black soldier fly and other Diptera on pig carrion in a plowed field in southern Georgia from 20 September through 21 February. Our data indicate black soldie...

Blowflies utilize discrete and ephemeral breeding sites for larval nutrition. After the exhaustion of food, larvae begin dispersing in search of sites to pupate or additional food sources, a process referred as postfeeding larval dispersal. Some of the most important aspects of this process were investigated in the blowfly Chrysomya albiceps, employing a circular arena to allow radial dispersio...