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Question 1

The beetle that is also referred to as a “burying beetle,” because it digs and buries small carcasses underground, is the _____________. carcass beetle
hister beetle
scarab beetle
carrion beetle

Question 2

Insects that are “necrophagous” are what? active at night
corpse-eating
giving origin to disease
very flattened larva

Question 3

What is the definition of “phenology”? living or foraging primarily above ground
moisture loving
infestation of a body by the larvae of flies
active only at a certain season or time of day

Question 4

Bergeret d’Arbois was the first person to use forensic entomology as a tool to ______________. prove his hypothesis on how and when a person had died
show that rotting meat that was not exposed to air did not develop maggots
demonstrate that the development of many different types of insect species could be tied to buried bodies
shed new light on many of the general characteristics of decaying flora and fauna