Background Infestation
Definition
Pre-existing insect activity in a property unrelated to the victim. The entomologist must distinguish insect evidence directly linked to the victim (on or in wounds) from background structural pests in the environment.
Related terms
- Duty of Care Failure
- In neglect prosecutions, the legal standard requires showing that a carer had a duty to the victim, failed to meet it, and...
- Facultative Myiasis
- Myiasis caused by species that normally breed in carrion or organic debris but can infest living tissue, particularly necrotic wounds. Lucilia sericata,...
- Infestation Age
- The minimum period an infestation has been established, back-calculated from the oldest (most developed) larval stage present using accumulated temperature data. Gives...
- Myiasis
- Infestation of a living human or other vertebrate by the larvae of flies, which feed on living or necrotic tissue, body fluids,...
- Obligate Myiasis
- Myiasis caused by species whose larvae must develop in living tissue to complete their life cycle. The New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax)...
Explained in
- Urban Entomology: Neglect, Myiasis and Living VictimsPre-existing insect activity in a property unrelated to the victim. The entomologist must distinguish insect evidence directly linked to the victim (on or in w...