Development modeling of Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae).

ABSTRACT: The relationship between insect development and temperature has been well established and has a wide range of uses, including the use of blow flies for postmortem (PMI) interval estimations in death investigations. To use insects in estimating PMI, we must be able to determine the insect age at the time of discovery and backtrack to time of oviposition. Unfortunately, existing development models of forensically important insects are only linear approximations and do not take into account the curvilinear properties experienced at extreme temperatures. A series of experiments were conducted with Lucilia sericata, a forensically important blow fly species, that met the requirements needed to create statistically valid development models. Experiments were conducted over 11 temperatures (7.5 to

SUBMITTER: Roe A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4358662 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature