When unidentified remains are relinquished to our care

That are so decayed and liquefied as to make diagnosis

quite a chore

When the putrescent canvas of death is teeming with

bristling life

With tiny anthropoid stowaways nestled in every pore...

My autopsy technicians mistake the corpse shudder for

a cadaveric spasm

But upon closer inspection they witness the nauseating

wave of insect activity

The feasting and chatter drowns the neon hum from the

morgue lamps and fans

And the ambient temperature rises 5 degrees as their

chitinous bodies skitter in putridity...

The corpse is alive...reanimated through entomological

means

The John Doe swells...as parasitic activity literally

bursts through his seams

Seeping rivers of eggs...hatching larvae are hurriedly

washed down the drain

Call the Forensic Entomologist...everyone knows he's got

bugs on the brain...

...Carcass hive...

...Cadaverine nest...

The Forensic Entomologist is a specialist in this

field

Of which there are three separate and distinct

components

The Urban field deals with insecthuman environment

matters

Stored-Products handles infestation of commodities and

products...

But the one that we require is the Medicolegal

Entomology field

With its eccentric bug experts and their forensic

Ph.D.'s

They've classified and catalogued their necrophilous

winged friends

And can determine PMI by the stadiums and stages of

insect activity...

...Blowflies...spiders...beetles...mites and lice...

...Maggots...larvae...pupa...hatch and fly...

...Crawling...squirming...breeding...burrowing...

...Medicocriminal entomology...

The Forensic Entomologist will analyze the cadaveric