Simple Summary The post-mortem interval of human cadavers may be estimated based on
insect evidence. In order to identify scientific challenges that pertain to these estimations, I …

The mass rearing of insects as animal feed is a new and rapidly growing component of
circular agriculture, which offers the opportunity to develop it in such a way that it promotes …

Carrion is a highly ephemeral and nutrient rich resource, characterized by extreme biotic
and abiotic stressors. We hypothesized that specific constraints of the carrion ecosystem …

Large carrion is inhabited by highly variable and interactive communities of insects. Positive
interactions in carrion insect communities have been recently the focus in carrion ecology. In …

Pathogen infection and conspecific density may considerably affect key life‐history traits of
organisms. For naturally aggregating species, even low concentrations of pathogens or high …

Abstract Analysis of insects can provide evidence in death cases, for example, by answering
the question about the time of death. Apart from flies, beetles are the second most useful …

Forensic entomologists frequently use a developmental method to estimate a post-mortem
interval (PMI). Such estimates are based usually on the blow fly larvae or puparia. Data on …

Insects regulate their body temperature mostly behaviourally, by changing posture or
microhabitat. Usually they use heat that is already present in the environment. Sometimes …

The forensically important genus Thanatophilus Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera: Silphidae) is a
widespread group of carrion beetles that occupies the Holarctic and Afrotropical realms. It …

In a field study of insect colonization on domestic pig carcasses, the typical colonization
sequence took a different turn midway through decomposition when Necrodes surinamensis …