FSC239Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hermetia Illucens, Pupa, Myiasis
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Def: the applicaion of the study of insects and other anthropods to legal issues, especially in a court of law . A body was found slashed in a village. An invesigaion quesioned the villagers and had them display their hand sickles. The invesigator noted that lies were atracted to one of the sickles. What did this indicate about the owner of this sickle? invesigator can quesion. Insects are usually the irst visitors to the corpse. The succession of anthropods on a corpse proceeds ina fairly predictable fashion. Ecological classiicaion of insects found at death scene. Necrophages: beetles and ly; irst to arrive: irst come irst serve; therefore advantage. Preditors: preying on other insects , so arrive once other insects are already there; then nechrophages become meals and therefore less on the body. Associaion with really sensiive structures that detect their environment, being the corpse. Acive decay: most putrid odour (humans can detect this)
