Day 9: 24 June 2009

The carcasses are decomposing and maggot activity is incredible. Of the maggots collected for rearing at CSU, most consist of Phormia regina, the black blowfly, but Cochliomyia macellaria, the secondary screwworm fly have also been reared from this area.

Pig 3. Location: CSU. The carcass is deflated and maggot masses are present underneath the carcass. The fluids of decomposition have stained the grass black beneath the carcass and is visible where the head was located.

Pig 4. Location: CSU. Large maggot masses are visible on the neck and underneath the carcasses (Above). The leg with the abscess is now occupied by feeding maggots, which have created 2 holes in the leg (Below).

Submitted by Krystal Hans, MS student, Cleveland State University, 13 August 2009.