In our forensics class we started an experiment to learn first hand about forensic entomology. On September 8th our class when down by the river and place a fresh pork shoulder on the ground with a cage over it so animals won't interfere. The purpose of this experiment was to learn and observe entomology first hand at the stages of decomposition. Another thing we were observing was how forensic entomologists provide evidence in murder cases.
Everyday we had class, we went outside an observed the changes that were happening. The first day of the experiment, we put the pork shoulder outside and immediately insects like blowflies, wasps, hairy maggot flies, and blue bottle flies, were landing on it. On September 10th the second day we went to go check on it, the we noticed some changes for example the skin started to decompose and inside the wounds we were able to see maggots. As the days progressed the color of the remains started to change going from pink, to a dark color in stages. On September 17th we went outside again and there were noting but bone. During the process of this experiment we collected maggots and papas to help us understand entomology even more.
With the maggots that we collected over the course of this experiment to calculate the PMI (postmortem interval) meaning the time from death and also to calculate the ADD ( accumulated degree day) and ADH ( accumulated degree hour.) all of our information was very close to the published data
Forensic Entomology is a very useful and very important in the science word. Forensic Entomology helps in all of the cases that involve bugs. For example it can tell you when the PMI which is really helpful because it allows the detectives to catch whoever is guilty. More police should rely more on forensic entomology to close cases.
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