Death's+Acre+98-110+TG

-flies will swarm to a body within minutes on a summer day -flies are drawn to the scent of blood -some insects become trapped in the very corpses that nourished them -to find out how a corpse decayed Reed set out 45 dog carcasses -decomposition happened faster in open areas -number of insects was greatest in the summer -flies can't fly under 50 degrees -fly eggs hatch into maggots in as little as 4-6 hours -flies are the first to arrive followed by yellow jackets and wasp that feed on the flies and their eggs -carrion beetles would then arrive to feast on the body and emerging maggots -the food chain was witnessed in action and will be used to help determine how long a body has been dead -Bills research of the two bodieswas a huge success and was mentioned as a high point by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences during the Fiftieth year -differential decomposition is when the body decomposes faster of slower than it would b/c of the temperature -girl was killed and it was determined by a forensic athropologist that she had been wearing shoes when she died -after digging up her body bill found that she had been stabbed several times and that her hands had defensive wounds but the case remains unsolved