Vocabulary
The time between death and the discovery of the body
What is Post Mortem Interval?
The digestive organ used for the storage of food
What is a crop?
The external skeleton of an animal such as an insect, protects and supports the body
What is an exoskeleton?
Nonfeeding stage of development between larva and adult
What is pupa?
Fluid filled structure in the head of a blowfly used to open the pupal case
What is ptilium?
Wormlike stage of insect development after egg
What is larva?
Each of the three different fly larval stages in species that undergo complete metamorphosis
What is instar?
A predictable sequence of changing species that inhabit decomposing body
What is insect succession?
Study of insects and related arthropods
What is entomology?
Depositing, or laying, of eggs
What is oviposition?
Wormlike fly larva
What is a maggot?
The number of hours at an adjusted average temperature an insect species takes to develop to a given stage
What is accumulated degree hours (ADH)
Application of entomology eo civil and criminal legal cases
What is forensic entomology?
Respiratory organs of insects that are used by researchers to identify a larval stage as first, second, or third instar
What are spiracles?
Body development in four stages; egg larva, pupa, and adult
What is complete metamorphosis?
Wormlike beetle larva
what is a grub?