Insect fauna visiting carrion in Southwest Virginia

Forensic Science International

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-80

  Tabor, Kimberly L ^a   Fell, Richard D ^a   Brewster, Carlyle C ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrion insects; Forensic entomology; Postmortem interval; Successional pattern

Indexed keywords

ALEOCHARA LATA; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BEETLE; CALLIPHORA VOMITORIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREOPHILIS MAXILLOSUS; FAUNA; FLY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HELICOBIA RAPAX; INSECT; LUCILIA ILLUSTRIS; NECRODES SURINAMENSIS; NECROPHILIA AMERICANA; NONHUMAN; OICEOPTOMA NOVEBORACENSE; PHAENICIA COERULEIVIRIDIS; PHAENICIA SERICATA; PHORMIA REGINA; PLATYDRACUS MACULOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SARCOPHAGA UTILIS; SPRING; SUMMER; SWINE; UNITED STATES; ZOOLOGY;

EID: 17144418059     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2004.06.041     Document Type: Article

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