Many of the blow flies (Calliphoridae) are of economic importance because of their effects on public health and the economy by causing myiasis in human beings and animals. Blow flies are also, however, forensic bioindicators since they can be used to determine the Post-Mortem Interval (PMI). Chrysomya saffranea (Bigot 1877), a dipteran calliphoridae of forensic and economic importance is currently endemic and recorded only in Australia and New Guinea. Here, the occurrence of C. saffranea is reported for the first time from Aurangabad City, Maharashtra State in India.

A main objective of the study is the establishment of a forensic entomological database for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Decomposition processes and beetle succession were analysed on rabbit carcasses in three different habitats (agricultural, desert and urban) in the period from May to July 2014. Due to the effects of the high temperature at the study sites, carrion reached the dry stage within 12 days in the agricultural habitat, and 6 days in the desert and urban habitats.

The performance of 10 clones of the grain aphid Sitobion avenae Fabricius was measured over three generations on three host plants (wheat, bluegrass and ryegrass). The tested clones belonged to six microsatellite genotypes; two genotypes were represented by three clonal lines each that had been collected from different host plants. The clones varied in body color and in the secondary endosymbionts they possessed (Hamiltonella, Regiella or none).

The present work describe a safe, mild, eco-friendly and versatile method for the synthesis of N1,N1,N4,N4-tetramethylpiperazine-1,4-dicarboxamide. The prepared compound was screened against Aedes caspius (Pallas) and Culex pipiens (Linnaeus) larvae and compared to its parent piperazine moiety. Likewise, histological structure of gut of treated third instar larva was considerably disturbed. The results demonstrated that substituted urea (1,4-dicarboxamide) meddled with the development of the mosquitoes, and had its strongest poisonous impact at 200 ppm for 48 h.