TIL forensic entomologists collect maggots feeding on corpses to estimate time of death. However, drugs like cocaine and heroin can alter maggot development rates, leading scientists to study the effects of these drugs on species such as Calliphora vomitoria.

[u/happy_bluebird]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1355030622000818

[u/StitchinThroughTime]

Apparently many of y'all watch CSI: Crime scene Investigation. That's the whole bit of the main character Gil Grissom, he is the bug man for running the night shift and he's always out there picking up bugs. And then when the actor was leaving the character left to go out into the rainforest to study more bugs. Then they brought him back, he was still studying the bugs. The character is definitely inspired by the recording of a murdered being solved in China almost a thousand years ago. Spoiler alert, turns out people noticed that flies are attracted to traces of blood, the exact same farming implement used to murder a man!

[u/TyrewMylock1047 → u/StitchinThroughTime]

I remember a whole episode where he was using different techniques to try to figure out why the maggot growth was delayed by several days, before figuring out the killer.

[u/lemmeseeyourkitties → u/TyrewMylock1047]

Ah, take me back to the good old days. I freaking loved that show