JW-+Pg+98-110+notes

- Maggots are small, worm like larvae - When maggots first hatch, they are smaller than grains of rice, but by the time they have matured, they are as long and fat as a piece of macaroni - They get that way by eating decaying flesh - Flies flee to fresh bodies on summer days (hot days) and in minutes, the air will be thick of them - Murray G. Motter noticed that the bodies that had been fed on numerous species of insects, at different stages, had been entomb by the corpse when it was buried. - The total number of insects on, in, and around the Caracas is the greatest during the summer and the heat. - But some find their peeks during the winter - During winter, flies are ground by cold (when it drops below 50 Fahrenheit - Blood triggers a feeding frenzy by insects - On a warm day it only takes a matter of hours before the nose, mouth and eyes are filled up with fly eggs - Yellow jackets and wasps show up within the first minutes to hours as well. - Carrion beetles arrive to feed, not just on the carrion but on maggots as well. - Masses of maggots hatch in bloody wounds, and consume the surrounding tissues. - That is called differential decomposition because it raises a red flag instantly in the mind of any trained forensic scientist.