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if you found piophila casei and bone eating beetles on a body, what could you say about the time of death

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well, both tend to feed on already decaying things, so I'd say that the body is at least 20 to 50 days after death. Beetles normally take over around that time because maggots can no longer get through the dry tissue.
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