| lucilia sericata strain from colombia: experimental colonization, life tables and evaluation of two artificial diets of the blowfly lucilia sericata (meigen) (diptera: calliphoridae), bogotá, colombia strain. | the objective of this work was to establish, under experimental laboratory conditions, a colony of lucilia sericata, bogotá-colombia strain, to build life tables and evaluate two artificial diets. this blowfly is frequently used in postmortem interval studies and in injury treatment. the parental adult insects collected in bogotá were maintained in cages at 22°c±1 average temperature, 60%±5 relative humidity and 12 h photoperiodicity. the blowflies were fed on two artificial diets that were eval ... | 2010 | 21031265 |