Forensic Entomology Vocab

# of hours it takes for insect species to develop to a given stage

• accumulated degree hours (ADH)

• insect succession

• instar

• complete metamorphosis

breakdown of once living matter by living organisms

• instar

• larva

• decomposition

• insect succession

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a digestive organ used for storage of food

• crop

• maggot

• larva

• instar

body development in 4 stages: egg, larva, pupa, & adult

• complete metamorphosis

• grub

• oviposition

• spiracles

study of insects & related arthropods

• entomology

• epidemiology

• oncology

• anthropology

application of entomology to civil & criminal legal cases

• forensic entomology

• forensic anthropology

• forensic odontology

• forensic epidemiology

wormlike beetle larva

• grub

• crop

• pupa

• maggot

predictable sequence of changing species that inhabit a decomposing body

• insect succession

• accumulated degree hours (ADH)

• instar

• complete metamorphosis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

each of the 3 different larval stages of flies in species that undergo complete metamorphosis

• instar

• insect succession

• maggot

• oviposition

wormlike stage of insect development after egg

• larva

• pupa

• grub

• crop

Tags

NGSS.3-LS1-1