Among the insects which are typically considered of forensic interest, the family Piophilidae
(Diptera) is frequently cited because of its common occurrence on carcasses in different …

Carrion resources sustain a complex and diverse community of both vertebrate and
invertebrate scavengers, either obligate or facultative. However, although carrion ecology …

The use of forensic entomology has become established as a global science. Recent efforts
in the field bridge multiple disciplines including, but not limited to, microbiology, chemistry …

This study aimed to provide the first checklist of forensically-important dipteran species in a
rain-forest environment in Northeastern Brazil, a region exposed to high rates of homicides …

Carrion in terrestrial environments usually attracts a rather predictable assemblage of
arthropods, and several studies have shown that a very large number of taxa can be …

The use of carrion-baited traps is a common and widely extended practice in the study of
sarcosaprophagous Diptera. However, it implies different areas of bias, one of them being …

We carried out a year-long survey of insects, using carrion-baited traps in the municipality of
Campinas and five surrounding municipalities with different urbanization profiles, in …

The diversity of necrophagous Diptera is largely unknown in seasonally dry tropical forests,
despite their medical, veterinary, and forensic relevance. We performed a study in the dry …

For most animals, the microbiome is key for nutrition and pathogen defence, and is often
shaped by diet. Corbiculate bees, including honey bees, bumble bees, and stingless bees …

The composition, spatial distribution, and seasonal fluctuations of necrophagous Coleoptera
assemblages of families Dermestidae and Silphidae are studied along a bioclimatical level …