Body Farm

  • Day 1

    No bugs
    North north west wind 14 mph 72 degrees 20% humidity
    Dead squirel with 3 legs and no head. Appears to have been run over.
  • Day 2

    West north west winds at 12 mph, 79 degrees and partly cloudy. 14% humidity. (Flies inside the animal, bloated and about ready to explode on the inside. No flies visible on the outside.)
  • Day 3

    Weekend
    90 degrees
    No observations made
  • Day 4

    96 degrees
    Weekend
    No observations made
  • Day 5

    16mph out of the south. 86 degree and 36% humidity. Squirrel has been moved to the end of the brick wall....
    Day 7- partly cloudy Skies, rainy, 84° South southeast winds 24 mph, 51% humidity
  • Day 6

    South wind 21 mph, 91 degrees no clouds, 44% humidity
    Large maggots and small maggots in side the squirrel. Second stage of decayal (new round of maggots created)
    Inside is nearly hollow
    Small Maggots - 1cm long
    Large Maggots - 2 cm long
  • Day 7

    Maggots 1 and 2 cm. Maggots are all inside the squirrel, bigger in size than day 6. About to form cocoon. PArtly cloudy skies, 84 degrees, south southeast winds at 24mph, 51% humidity.
  • Day 8

    Cloudy, rainy, wind out of the east at 6mph. 73 degrees and 85% humidity
    No observations due to rain
  • Day 9

    Wind from the north at 3mph, 86 degrees and 32% humidity. Maggots gone. One spider
  • Day 10

    90 degrees 36% humidity
    few ants
    body mostly gone in the inside
  • Day 11

    91 degrees
    565 humidity
  • Day 12

    82 degrees, 65% humidity, south southeast wind at 20 mph. Few ants leathered body hollow
  • Day 13

    64 degrees with 52% humidity, north north west wind at 16 mph. Clear skies
    No bugs Holow, leathered body
  • Day 14

    72 degrees, 31% humidity, 22 mph out of the north. Partly cloudy skies.
    hollow, leathered body, few ants
  • Day 15

    81 degrees, 19% humidity, west south west winds at 13mph. Clear skies
    Leathered, hollow body
    Few ants around body
  • Day 16

    Clear skies and 79 degrees, 32% humidity. Winds at 7 mph from the south
    Hollow leathered body No bugs
  • Day 17

    84 degrees
    weekend no ovservations made
  • Day 18

    87 Degrees No observations made
  • Day 19

    Clear skies, 82 degrees, 44% humidity and winds from the south south east at 23mph
    No bugs