FlyEvidence

A Scottish based Insect Identification and Forensic Entomology Service

Contracts completed:
[Contents of reports are confidential; hence many titles are strongly abbreviated]


1990    1991    1992    1994    1995    1998    2002    2003    2004    2005    2006


Abbreviations used:
EIA – Environmental Impact Assessment (broadly including environmental and ecological studies)
H&S – Health and Safety



2006.

H&S: On-going nuisance flies (Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758 (Diptera, Muscidae)) in Finglassie and neighbouring housing estates at Glenrothes (Fife, Scotland). Fife Council Environmental Services.

EIA: Macaulay Institute HEM-ARAN: Glen Finglas Hemiptera, Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha and Araneae sample identification.


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2005.

EIA: SAC SEERAD-funded identification of target taxa from D-Vac at Tweedsmuir samples (family + target species level).

EIA: Macaulay Institute SEERAD-funded identification of target taxa from RIPAL Suction Traps at Linn Of Quoich samples (25 taxa in Hydrophilidae, Hydraenidae, Staphylinidae (Steninae) & Carabidae (Bembidiinae); 257 samples; 3407 target specimens; approx. 10200 sorted specimens) [continued into eearly 2006].
[The RIPAL project is an important trans-disciplinary collaboration within the Macaulay Institute, with emphasis on how agricultural best management practices can affect water quality, flood risk and the ecological integrity of water-margin vegetation.]

H&S: Nuisance flies (Musca domestica Linnaeus, 1758 (Diptera, Muscidae)) in Finglassie and neighbouring housing estates at Glenrothes (Fife, Scotland). Fife Council Environmental Services.
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2004.

Death: pensioner. Central Scotland Police

Murder: Strathclyde Police Force

EIA: Roe Brecks, Shetland; Diptera samples (species level); sub for C. Sullivan

H&S: Flies from take-away outlet. Fife Council Environmental Services
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2003.

Murder: Strathclyde Police Force.

Death: unidentified male, Gallowgate. Strathclyde Police Force.

Murder: Strathclyde Police Force.
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2002.

Murder: Lothian & Borders Police Force.
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1998.

EIA - Fife Freshwater Samples – invertebrates (species level); SWT Environmental Services.
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1995.

EIA - Identification and counting of Cicadellidae (Homoptera). Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (MLURI; Aberdeen).
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1994.

EIA - The Invertebrates of the Phragmites Reed Beds of the River Tay Estuary - collection and identification of Hymenoptera: Parasitica (family level); sweep netting and emptying water traps. SNH; sub for K. Watt.

EIA - Identification and counting of Carabidae (Coleoptera) from two Scottish sites within the Environmental Change Network (ECN) + Tipulidae (Diptera) and Mitopus adults (Opiliones) were also counted and the latter removed and sent away for further analysis. Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (MLURI; Aberdeen).

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1992.

EIA - Report on problem fly populations at a dairy cattle farm in the Orange Free State, South Africa. Bandenhorst.
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1991.

H&S - Investigation of complaints by farmers adjacent to a dewatered sludge treatment plot at Dairy Top Farm (Hammarsdale, South Africa). Umgeni Water Board.

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1990.

Suspected Murder: unidentified female, Mabula Lodge, Rooiberg, South Africa. South African Police.

Maggot extracted: 8yr old male. Edendale Hospital, South Africa.

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