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Where on the insect’s body do you find the location of the legs?

What are some reasons that a TOC may differ from a minimum postmortem interval?

Bees, ants and wasps belong to an order that translates to ‘membranous wings’, which order is that? Make sure to capitalize your answer.

Identify this insect down to the lowest level covered in class.     

What is a ptilinum?

How many eggs/larvae should you collect when sampling

You are called to a scene to collect entomological evidence and you notice that colonization is focused in the head region (specifically, the nose and mouth), there are also Trichoptera collected from the victim’s shirt. What does this colonization pattern indicate to you?

What phylum are insects classified under? Make sure to capitalize your answer.

_____________ is the fourth stage of decomposition.

You find the following insects were collected from your scene, what stage of decomposition do you expect your body to be in?           3rd instar blow fly larvae in large quantities, staphylinids, hister beetles