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Death's Acre 100-107 flies can deepen our understanding of the postmortem interval or time since death: example: in one murder case they ordered that everyone turn in their sickles, and when they did the flies gathered to one sickle (which had blood on it) and that owner of that sickle was the murderer (flies are drawn to decomposing things and blood) stages: larvae, pupae, adults

test done with dogs found: 1) the total number of insects around and in the body was greatest in the summer 2) there were more bugs in the forest, but decomposition happened faster in open areas (maybe because of the higher temperature) 3) also documented all the types of bugs flies stop flying when it gets cold (less decomposition by flies happens when it is cold) steps to decomposition by flies: 1) swarm of blowflies (in warm weather the blowflies would come in a matter of minutes, they were attracted to blood) 2) during the warm day it would only take hours for there to be yellow eggs laid in the nose, ears, and mouth 3) in warm weather the eggs would hatch into maggots in 4-6 hours 4) wasps and yellow jacket came within the first hour to eat the flies and body 5) Carrion beetles came to feed on maggots and carrion

they marked the flies and 3/5 came back to the body the next day