Insect succession on remains of human and animals in Shenzhen, China

Investigating insect succession, along with developmental study of carrion insects, constitutes some of the most fundamental and important work of forensic entomology. In the time since insect succession theory on carcasses was first proposed by M égnin [1], there have been a great number of studies on this field. Through these studies, the succession patterns under different types of environment have been observed, including land exposure [2,3], burying [4,5], indoor environments [6,7], vehicle environments [8], ponds and rivers [9,10], oce ans [11], dry environments [12,13], rainy seasons [14,15].
Source: Forensic Science International - Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Source Type: research