| presence of fecal material in diapers as a potential source of error in estimations of postmortem interval using arthropod development rates. | second instar larvae of the fly chrysomya megacephala (diptera, calliphoridae) were recovered from the diapers of a 16-month-old child abandoned by her mother on oahu, hawaii. the development of these larvae indicated a minimum period of 23.5 h of exposure prior to discovery of the child. larvae of this species of fly are not normally associated with living tissues in hawaii, but rather with feces and remains during the early stages of decomposition. had the child in this case died and data not ... | 1991 | 1683361 |
| traps and baits for flies (diptera) on pacific islands. | studies conducted on oahu, hi, and on islands of the kwajalein atoll, marshall islands, demonstrated that adult house flies, musca domestica l., were attracted to a mixture of cooked rice and chicken and to a commercial bait, whereas adults of chrysomya megacephala f. and musca sorbens wiedemann were attracted to shark fluids or to ripe breadfruit. m. domestica and m. sorbens could be captured in standard inverted-cone traps, whereas c. megacephala could be captured in traps fitted with horizont ... | 1994 | 7815393 |