Australian horticulture relies heavily on the introduced managed honey bee, Apis mellifera
Linnaeus 1758 (Hymenoptera: Apidae), to pollinate crops. Given the risks associated with …

Blow flies are commonly associated with decomposing material. In most cases, the larvae
are found feeding on decomposing vertebrate remains; however, some species have …

Mimicry is a classic example of adaptation through natural selection. The traditional focus of
mimicry research has been on defence in animals, but there is now also a highly-developed …

After death, the human body undergoes various processes that result in the emission of
volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The interest in these VOCs has increased substantially …

Multi-kingdom community complexity and the chemically mediated dynamics between
bacteria and insects have recently received increased attention in carrion research …

We investigated foraging decisions by adult females of the common green bottle fly, Lucilia
sericata, in accordance with their physiological state. When we gave female flies a choice …

Because of the nutritional ecology of dung-and carrion-feeding, bacteria are the integral part
of Lucilia sericata life cycle. Nevertheless, the disinfected larvae of the blowfly are applied to …

It has been suggested that flowers of some angiosperms mimic vertebrate faeces (dung) in
order to exploit insect pollinators that utilize faeces as a source of food and/or oviposition …

The necrophilous insect fauna on carcasses varies seasonally and geographically. The
ecological succession of insects arriving to decaying neonate pig carcasses in central North …

The common green bottle fly Lucilia sericata (Meigen) and other filth flies frequently visit
pollen-rich composite flowers such as the Oxeye daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare Lam. In …