Death's+Acre+98-110+CEW

-Captured five flies and marked them with orange dots, testing where they ended up, which stage of death -**Maggots:** small, wormlike larvae that hatch from eggs laid on dead bodies by flies -when they first hatch: size of grain of rice -once matured, they're about the size of a macaroni noodle -they grow/get fat by eating decaying flesh -more so in Tennessee (wet climate), then places like Kansas (dry climate) -Sung Tzu, the Chinese investigator, in 1247 A.D--//The Washing Away of Wrongs// - Murray G. Motter; examined 150 bodies that dug up when a cemetary was relocated -The bodies had fed and housed numerous species of insects. most at different stages which were larvae, pupae and adults -On a warm day, it takes only a few hours for the nose, mouth and eyes to be filled with yellowish masses of fly eggs -One female blowfly can lay hundreds of eggs at a time -During the warm heat of May and June, the clump of eggs hatched into millions of maggots in 4-6 hours -Insects can often help to show how the victim was killed/died