| analysis of the successional patterns of insects on carrion in southwest virginia. | studies of carrion-insect succession on domestic pig, sus scrofa l., were conducted in the spring and summer of 2001 and 2002 in blacksburg, va, to identify and analyze the successional patterns of the taxa of forensic importance in southwest virginia. forty-seven insect taxa were collected in the spring. these were represented by 11 families (diptera: calliphoridae, sarcophagidae, muscidae, sepsidae, piophilidae; coleoptera: staphylinidae, silphidae, cleridae, trogidae, dermestidae, histeridae) ... | 2004 | 15311476 |