A Summer Carrion Study of the Baby Pig Sus Scrofa Linnaeus

摘要: A carrion study of the baby pig, Sus scrofa Linnaeus, was conducted during summers 1962 and 1963 in a mixed mesophytic hardwood—pine community at Clemson, South Carolina. Six stages decomposition were delimited for exposed to arthropods: fresh, bloated, active decay, advanced dry, remains. Five recognized protected from bloating decomposition, flaccidity dehydration, mummy, desiccation disintegration. Carrion free insects decomposed dried very slowly, retaining its form many months, while 90% open removed 6 days. temperature bloated through decay differed widely that air or soil. definite ecological succession occurred among fauna carrion. Each stage characterized by particular group arthropods, each which occupied niche. Their activities influenced physical properties carrion, rapidity putrefaction, time day, weather. total 522 species representing 3 phyla, 9 classes, 31 orders, 151 families, 359 genera collected decomposing pigs. Four orders arthropods (Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Araneida) accounted 78% fauna. Two coleopterous Histeridae Staphylinidae three dipterous Sarcophagidae, Calliphoridae, Muscidae, represented 26%