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

The present study compared the development of the fleshfly Wohlfahrtia nuba larvae fed on different cow body tissues at constant temperature. The results showed that larval growth rate was significantly faster, and larvae completed feeding and wandered from the food source earlier between 24 and 30 hr when they were fed on brain compared to lung, heart, muscles and liver. ... Read more

Larvae of Wohlfahrtia nuba were reared at constant temperature on liver tissue obtained from rabbits administered lethal and double lethal dosages of diazepam. Larvae from colonies fed on tissues from rabbits receiving lethal and double lethal dosages developed more rapidly between 24 and 72 hours after administration as compared to the control. The period required for completion of larval development ... Read more

The direct and delayed effects of cadmium on the adult stage Wohlfahrtia nuba were investigated. Laboratory reared larvae and adults were exposed to cadmium through their diets. Cadium was accumulated in both stages. Individuals exposed to cadmium as adults had higher cadmium concentration than exposed as larvae . Read more

Fleshfly Wohlfahrtia nuba that has been reared on artificial diet containing from 0 to 700 mg kgresults in reduced peak larval wieght, developmental period,pupal weight and subsequent adult-emergence weight.Malformed adult increased progressively wioth cadmium concentrations.Adutt longevity and fecundity were also reduced by cadmium exposure in larval stage. Read more

Size variation of flesfly,Wohlfahrtia nuba was produced in the laboratory by rearing larvae on different weights of meat. Mating experiments,pairing flies of various sizes showed that when small maless mated with large femles the percentage of successfuly inseminatd females was significantly reduced compared with large males.Measurments of aedeagus size and head width showed that the size of aedeagus is positively ... Read more