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| What kind of insect holds the most records? |
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| Which one has the most toxic venom? |
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| Which is the most resistant to pesticides? |
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| The Lacey Act and butterfly poaching |
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| Bans interstate transport of endangered species collected illegally |
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| True or False: • All 50 states have laws of some kind dealing with bugs |
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| dealt with pesticides that caused cancer |
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• The application of the study of insects and other arthropods to legal issues
• Use of insect knowledge in the investigation of crimes or civil disputes |
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| The application of the study of insects and other arthropods to legal issues and use of insect knowledge in the investigation of crimes or civil disputes |
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• Environmental factors
• Presence of Rigor Mortis
• Stages of decomposition
• Insect behavior and lifecycles |
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caused swollen belly syndrome
Malnourished people |
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• River blindness
• Microfilaria
• Lives up to 14 years in body
• Spread by the bite of infected black flies |
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• Guinea worm
• Threadlike parasitic worm that grows and matures under the skin
• Looks like hemp rope under skin
• Hermaphroditic worm that mates with itself
• Get infected when they drink standing water containg a tiny water flea |
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| 3 categories of Forensic Entomology |
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Urban
Stored Product
Medicolegal |
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| Process of death: Somatic death |
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o Organism is irreversibly unconscious
o All cellular activity does NOT stop at this point |
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| Process of death: Cellular death |
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o Individual cells/organs cease functioning at varying rates
o When discussing decay, this is important |
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| What are the environmental factors of forensic entomology? |
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| Temperature, rain/water, exposure |
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| Stiffening of body muscles due to lactic acid |
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| Inital stage of decomposition |
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• First stage
• Body appears normal on outside
• Is decaying on inside (cellular death)
• Bacteria
• Nematodes
• No associated smells
• Flies
• Begun laying eggs on the body, in the ears, nose, mouth, and anal. Lay eggs in orafices. |
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• Initial
• Putrefaction
• Black putrefaction
• Butyrie
• Dry decay |
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2nd stage of decomp, • Body bloated
• Pressure forces fluids and by-products out
• Associated odor of decay
• Flies
• Wasps
• Beetles
• Most colorful insect we know occur in these kinds of environments |
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• Third stage
• Gases have escaped
• Flesh creamy consistency
• Odor of decay very strong
• Insects prime factor in decay
• Insects cosume bulk of flesh and seepage
• Several generations of maggots
• Mature 3rd stage wander off to form pupae
• Predatory maggots more common
• Pioneer flies not attracted
• Increase in necrophagous/predaceous beetles and parasitoid wasps |
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• Fourth stage
• Body drying out
• Bits in contact with ground mold
• Cheesy odor
• Major insect succession
• Cheese Skipper – immature stage that is important
• They can jump 6x body length |
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• fifth stage
• roaches show up
• only insects feeding on hair remain
• mostly clothes moths and roaches
• feed on dry, dead skin |
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| Arthropod-Vectored Human Diseases Cycle |
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• pathogen (disease)
• vector (carrier)
• intermediate host (sometime)
• human host
• 1 of every 6 people affected by an insect carried disease |
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| • Efficiency of conversion of ingested food – the amount of weight an animal gains per weight of food an animal eats |
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| Worldwide, what determines the most commonly consumed insects? |
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| Those that are in large quantities such as the migratory locust or termites |
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| • A grub or caterpillar of uncertain identity that in Rome was considered a delicacy after fed flour |
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| Ant with long body and black head that is eaten |
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| • A giant water bug that is available for sale at markets and in fact has made an appearance in California in import stores |
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| Most insect eating in the US |
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| What did V.M. Holt do in 1885 that promoted entomophagy? |
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• Published a book titled Why Not Eat Insects?
• Argued that plant-feeding insects in particular were clean, nutritious, easy to prepare, tasy, and superior to arthropods |
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| What did R. Kok suggest in 1983 concerning entomophagy? |
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| Suggested that insects could board spaceships to provide protein to space travelers |
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