Insect succession associated with a hanging pig carcass placed in an oil palm plantation in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Chin, H.C., Sulaiman, S., Othman, H., Jeffery, J., Kurahashi, H., Omar, B.
• Format: Article
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2010
• Subjects: Q Science (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/11683/

This study was carried out in an oil palm plantation in Tanjung Sepat, Selangor in September 2007 by using pigs (Sus scrofa L.) as a carcass model in a forensic entomological research. A 2.5 month old pig (10 kg) which died naturally was hanged on a palm tree to observe the insect succession and dec...