Forensic entomology: The utility of arthropods in legal investigation/ by Jason H. Bryd

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Introduction: perceptions and status of forensic entomology --1. General entomology and insect biology --2. Insects of forensic importance --3. Collection of entomological evidence during legal investigations --4. Laboratory rearing of forensic insects --5. Factors that influence insect succession on carrion --6. Insect succession in a natural environment --7. The role of aquatic insects in forensic investigations --8. Recovery of anthropological, botanical, and entomological evidence from buried bodies and surface scatter --9. Estimating the postmortem interval --10. Insect development and forensic entomology --11. The soil environment and forensic entomology --12. Entomotoxicology: insects as toxicological indicators and the impact of drugs and toxins on insect development --13. Molecular methods for forensic entomology --14. The forensic entomologist as expert witness --15. Livestock entomology --16. Ecological theory and its application in forensic entomology --17. Forensic meteorology: the application of weather and climate --18. Entomology alteration of bloodstain evidence --19. Keys to the blow fly species (diptera calliphoridae) of America, north of mexico --20. Cases of neglect involving entomology evidence --21. Acarology in criminolegal investigations: the human acarofauna during life and death.