Sunday, April 17, 2011

The Blowfly: An Agent in Solving Murder Cases and Medical Treatment | Scienceray

The Blowfly: An Agent in Solving Murder Cases and Medical Treatment | Scienceray

The importance of Blowflies in solving murder cases and their medicinal significance.

Well, almost all people find Blowfly a really yucky creature. Blowflies are among the most hated and most avoided creatures on Earth due to their nasty nature and the diseases they transmit to humans.
People may regard them unlikable creatures but they are useful somehow one way or the other. There are 1,100 known species of Blowflies most of them can be found in Africa and Southern Europe. Countries with the most species of Blowflies are India, Japan, Southern United States and Central America.

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Blowflies are known for their importance in science particularly in forensic science. The oldest known records of forensic entomology was published by Song Ci in 1247 CE in his Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified during the Song Dynasty that reigned from 960 – 1279 CE.

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