Rare other uses
A dead teenager in the dessert, dehydrated and appearing to have died from fear, but this use of insect evidence points to a different factor involved
What is analysis of drugs/toxins?
These insects landed on the blade of the perpetrator when all the men in the village laid their blades on the ground for inspection
What are blow flies? (flies)
Woman's body found inland on big island in Hawaii with insects not found in that part of the island suggested this use of insect evidence
What is movement of the body?
The presence of these are indicated by the oldest maggots not being found on the face or genital area.
What are wounds?
Experts that are willing to bend their opinions due to influence by whomever hired them to testify
What are hired guns?
Maggots in a diaper of a child found near volcano in Hawaii were used for this less common use of insect evidence
What is timing of abuse?
This use of insect evidence was critical in distinguishing between two sets of witnesses when two women's bodies were found in the forest by hikers
What is time of death?
Body found under waterbed in northern Canada illustrates this type of time of death estimate
What is season of death?
The suicide of teenage girl was overturned by examination of photos that indicated this use of insect evidence
What is position and presence of wounds?
What is the Truscott case?
After unsuccessfully shooting and hanging himself, a man commits suicide and the dead adult flies, but surviving larvae on and around the body suggest this other use of insect evidence
What is analysis of drugs/toxins?
The bites of this insect on police officers investigating the scene and also found on the suspect
What are chiggers?
Despite the body and bed wrapped in layers of blanket, garbage bags and plastic, this aspect of insect behaviour was not delayed
What is insect colonization?
Husband kills wife, attempts to collect life insurance on wife but insect evidence provides this information
What is time of dismemberment? (decapitation)
Regression analysis of a data logger is used to correct for differences in this data between the scene and nearest weather station
What is temperature data?
Eight species of insects indicated a precise geographical area in South East Asia, near Thailand, was used for this other use of insect evidence
What is drug trafficking?
Fly eggs on bear cubs identified these suspects for this crime
What is poaching?
Pigs placed in forest 1.5 hours before sunset were an experiment to recreate this side's scenario.
Who are crown counsel?
Body buried in layers of tarp with insects in all layers provides not just time of death but also this use of insect evidence
What is time of disturbance?
Preservation type can impact this physical aspect of immature insects
What is their length?
Man in bathtub with suicide note, blood tracks out of tub, blood spots on door, mirror, walls suggest this other use of insect evidence
What is bloodstain pattern analysis?
This insect evidence was found inside cockleburs located on the ski mask of a suspect and on the bushes outside the apartment building where the sexual assault took place
What are caterpillars?
Pigs placed in forest, then put into containers 2 days later, driven around for an hour and dumped tested a faulty Crown scenario assumption
What is transfer of evidence? (locard exchange principle)
Disposal of a body using a wood chipper was unmasked by the analysis of this part of the maggots found feeding in the wood chips
What is gut content DNA analysis?
Entomologists often do not agree on this particular environmental variable when it comes to calculating development of a particular insect species and the cut off at which they do not develop.
What is the base temperature?