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Kevin Feeney says:
These are larva I believe the two on the right are the carrion beetle larva and the blow fly larva.
These are used in forensic entomology, which tries to explain the time of death based on the growth of insects on dead corpses.
The issues are that this is not like TV where they can tell you he dies at 5:37 pm, I think these experts can only give a segment or period of time when the maggot growth started. I would also say other limits are bugs don’t always act the same way and you can have bugs lay eggs on the living too.
Sorry for the partial answer (if I am right and I am not sure). The carrion beetle larva looks familiar.
Kevin Feeney
PS Your cite popped up when I was googling for Williams v Illinois. It should be due this week.
Jay Tiftickjian says:
These are bugs (duh!). Forensic entomologists examine insect succession to determine a victim’s time of death. When a body is examined, entomologists attempt to determine how long the corpse has been rotting and decomposing from what types of bugs and bug eggs are present. Generally, the first to arrive are bow flies, which are attracted to the sweet smell of a fresh corpse and can invade within minutes of death. Beetles follow, flies gather (including ordinary house flies), and then parasidic insects join the party to feed on the maggots and beetle larvae. Eventually, as the corpse dries, hide beetles and clothes moths make their appearance to feast.
One study that attempted to validate this theory was a blind valudation study by Forensic Science International in 2008, where three mock crime scenes at different temperatures were used to see how fast bow fly eggs arrived to measure post-mortemintervals. This study found that the time of death could be estimated within a day. There have been more studies.
I recall this from the epic movie and novel, Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris.