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VOL. 5, ISSUE 6 (2020)
The Influence of winter weather and clothes on the decomposition of rabbit carcasses and insect succession, in urbanized district of 6th October city, Egypt
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Abouzied EM, Al-Sahhaf ZY, Hijji AM
Abstract
After death, insects are attracted to the corpse in a specific organized order. This order is used by forensic entomologist to accurately estimate the post mortem interval (PMI). However, insects are greatly affected by many conditions surrounding the corpus that could change its normal arrival and decomposition pattern. Some of these conditions are related to the habitat and climate, in which the carcass is placed, desert habitat, cultivated land or urbanized district. Other conditions are related to the carcass itself such as burns, wounds, drug abuse, and presence or absence of clothes. Eight pairs of rabbit carcasses were divided into two groups. The first group included clothed rabbit carcasses, and the second group included non-clothed rabbit carcasses as control. Insect fauna was represented by Six species of adult flies were, namely Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedemann), Chrysomya megacephala (Fabricius), lucilia cuprina (Wiedemann), Musca domestica L., Sarcophaga sp. as well as Piophila casea L. ntomofauna, also comprised 3 coleopteran species namely, Necrobia rufipes Fabricious, Hister sp. and Dermestes maculates De Geer. Clothes significantly delayed the durations of the stages decomposition. Taxa were represented by 6 adult fly species and 3 adult coleopteran species. Taxa attracted to the two carcass groups and the pattern of visitation recorded during the decomposition process were the same. Clothes attracted more insects (Pi= 0.55) compared to the control carcasses (Pi=0.45).
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Pages:31-39
How to cite this article:
Abouzied EM, Al-Sahhaf ZY, Hijji AM "The Influence of winter weather and clothes on the decomposition of rabbit carcasses and insect succession, in urbanized district of 6th October city, Egypt". International Journal of Entomology Research, Vol 5, Issue 6, 2020, Pages 31-39
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