Scattered in a few places around the United States are research stations where bodies are dumped in the field so that we can do better forensics. In the latest issue of Journal of Medical Entymology, there is a report from Texas of pillbugs (a.k.a. rolly-pollys) and katydids that fed on human remains. The sites where they fed produced marks that could be interpreted as "attack, abuse, neglect, or torture."
Ecological research and life at mid-sized liberal arts university
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