| stable fly, house fly (diptera: muscidae), and other nuisance fly development in poultry litter associated with horticultural crop production. | poultry litter usage in horticultural crop production is a contributor to nuisance fly populations, in particular stable flies (stomoxys calcitrans l.) and house flies (musca domestica l.). extrapolation of adult emergence data suggests that approximately 1.5 million house flies and 0.2 million stable flies are emerging on average from every hectare of poultry litter applied as a preplant fertilizer for vegetable production in perth, western australia. to a lesser extent, sideband applications t ... | 1999 | 10633577 |
| mitochondrial dna cytochrome oxidase i gene: potential for distinction between immature stages of some forensically important fly species (diptera) in western australia. | forensic entomology requires the fast and accurate identification of insects collected from a corpse for estimation of the postmortem interval (pmi). identification of specimens is traditionally performed using morphological features of the insect. morphological identification may be complicated however by the numerical diversity of species and physical similarity between different species, particularly in immature stages. in this study, sequencing was performed to study the mitochondrial dna (m ... | 2003 | 12590052 |
| extraction of gunshot residues from the larvae of the forensically important blowfly calliphora dubia (macquart) (diptera: calliphoridae). | whole body concentrations of lead (pb), barium (ba) and antimony (sb) were determined in larvae of the blowfly calliphora dubia (macquart) (diptera: calliphoridae) removed from a piece of beef shot and contaminated with gunshot residue and compared with the concentrations detected within larvae feeding on a control piece of beef. whole larvae were taken into solution and analysed using inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (icp-ms). significantly higher concentrations of pb, ba and sb wer ... | 2004 | 14648167 |
| hymenopteran parasitoids of forensic importance: host associations, seasonality, and prevalence of parasitoids of carrion flies in western australia. | a 2-yr survey of hymenopteran parasitoids associated with carrion-breeding flies was conducted to establish the parasitoid species of potential forensic significance in western australia. host associations, seasonality, and rates of parasitism in the field were examined to assess the value of the identified parasitoids as forensic indicators of time since death. four species of parasitoid emerged from dipteran specimens collected from carcasses: tachinaephagus zealandicus ashmead (encryptidae), ... | 2009 | 19769056 |
| temperature-dependent development of the parasitoid tachinaephagus zealandicus on five forensically important carrion fly species. | the influences of temperature and host species on the development of the forensically important parasitoid tachinaephagus zealandicus ashmead (hymenoptera: encyrtidae) were studied at six constant temperatures in the range of 15-30 degrees c. t. zealandicus completed development successfully between 15 degrees c and 27 degrees c on five species of calliphoridae, calliphora albifrontalis malloch, calliphora dubia macquart, lucilia sericata meigen, chrysomya rufifacies macquart and chrysomya megac ... | 2010 | 20374476 |
| larviposition in the ovoviviparous blowfly calliphora dubia. | this study examined larviposition in calliphora dubia macquart (diptera: calliphoridae), an ovoviviparous blowfly of considerable forensic importance in australia. females in the field carried 22-83 live larvae, exhibiting a strong linear relationship between female size and the number of live larvae carried. females took just over 1 min (mean 67.7 ± 7.7 s, n = 54) to larviposit live larvae on or near fresh liver in the laboratory. females laid larvae at a mean rate of 1.2 ± 0.1 larvae/s, with t ... | 2011 | 20642747 |
| reflectance-based determination of age and species of blowfly puparia. | forensic entomology is primarily concerned with the estimation of time since death and involves determination of the age of immature insects colonising decomposing remains. accurate age determination of puparia is usually accomplished by dissection, which means destructive sampling of evidence. as part of improving abilities to correctly identify species and developmental age, it is highly desirable to have available non-destructive methods. in this study, we acquired external hyperspectral imag ... | 2017 | 27766412 |
| isolation and detection of ingested dna from the immature stages of calliphora dubia (diptera: calliphoridae) : a forensically important blowfly. | the forensic entomologist frequently bases time since death (tsd) estimation on fly larvae. in some cases, the food source on which these larvae have completed their development may be questionable, and requires verification to ensure the accuracy of the tsd estimation. ingested dna may be isolated from the alimentary canal of immature insects. previous studies have confirmed the ability to extract ingested dna from the alimentary tract of third instar blowfly larvae. this study considers the po ... | 2005 | 25868444 |