| habitat preferences and carcase colonization by sheep blowflies in the northern north island of new zealand. | in urban auckland, from september 1991 to may 1992, only six specimens of the australian sheep blowfly, lucilia cuprina, were collected in farmed parkland and in garden habitats. the common green blowfly, lucilia sericata, was the most common calliphorid trapped in these habitats. neither of the two lucilia species were found in native bush remnants in urban or rural areas where calliphora hilli was dominant. similarly very few l.cuprina (0.3% of the total) were trapped in rural rubbish tips in ... | 1993 | 8481532 |
| a preliminary investigation of insect colonisation and succession on remains in new zealand. | a preliminary, systematic field study on the process of decomposition and associated insects was conducted, for the first time, in new zealand. using pig carcasses as an animal model for human decomposition, insect colonisation and succession was monitored in three different habitats in the auckland region where remains are likely to be found. a significant difference in the rates of decomposition was found among the three different habitats of an open field, coastal sand dune area and native bu ... | 2008 | 17997065 |