Abstract: Studying the entomosarcosaprophagous community is useful in forensic practice to estimate postmortem interval both on the basis of larval development of the main species and considering the sarcosaprophagous community as a whole. Since such community is affected by different environmental variables, it is needed to be studied under different environmental conditions. For forensic purposes, the most important component of ... Read more

ABSTRACT Although flies are important vectors of bacterial pathogens, there is little information to assess the health risk of the presence of individual flies especially at animal barns in Sohag Governorate. This study determines the prevalence and the risk of bacterial pathogens associated with the body surfaces of individual wild flies at three different animal barns. A total of 148 ... Read more

. Abstract Mouth parts deformities in chironomid larvae are considered as indicators of environmental stress in aquaticsystems caused by water and sediment pollution such as heavy metals, pesticides as well as organiccontamination. Fourth instar chironomid larvae were collected from two sites (SI and SII) located in the RiverNile, Sohag Governorate, Egypt. The chironomid community of the two SI and SII ... Read more

Abstract The succession of entomosarcosaprophagous fauna depends on multiple factors, being the environment one of the most important. Thus the study of sarcosaprophagous community in different microclimatic environments is relevant, even if the different locations are close to each other. Results concerning the early sarcosaprophagous community collected during a whole year in an umbrage area located at 980 MASL in ... Read more

The temperature-dependent development of the forensically important fleshfly Wohlfahrtia nuba (wied) was studied at five constant temperature regimes in the laboratory. At 15 °C and 20 °C, larval development was completed, but no adult emerged. From linear regression of development rates of five constant temperature regimes, it was determined that the minimum development threshold (tL ) for total larval development ... Read more