Exhibition Images
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Upon a View of the Body
Adult Red-Tailed Flesh Fly (Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis)
Depending upon the depth of burial, female flesh flies may deposite eggs on the substrate above a buried corpse and the larvae will burrow down through the soil to infest the body. Attracted to excrement and carrion.
Division of Entomology, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University