Sunday, September 21, 2014

Observation

This all started on September 8th at 11:56am when we first placed the pork shoulder outside the front of the school. It was placed under trees in a clear area with just a little of sunlight around the shrubbery. The shoulder was fresh at the time but with time slowly started to rot. On day 2 it had dried up and looked leathery the temperature of the shoulder was at 23 degree Celsius and the temperature in the air was 73 degree their where flies, wasps, maggots, inside larva, hairy maggots, blowflies, green body flies and sheep flies.September 12th the temperature was 68 degrees the shoulder was shrinking, bluish green color and it was slowly starting to decompose their was a rat present and also maggots. Days later on September 17 the shoulder was black and had rotting holes all over, their was pupa present also maggots, flies and maggots deep inside the shoulder.

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