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Crime Scene Insects

Lee Goff is a Forensic Entomologist. His business card reads: "Know maggots, will travel." It depicts a little worm staring through a detective's magnifying glass.

Cha-chingg! I think I've found my next profession! Whaddaya think?

And where can we go on field trips when I go back to school as a maggot specialist? Why, the Body Farm of course! And how perfect for Halloween! I'm trying to imagine what folks who work here tell people they do for a living.

Sorry. So as to put my little friends, the insects, back in a better light... by all means go see Butterflies as Art. Now seriously: this photographer has created some kind of wonderful niche in the working world, don't you think? To travel around the world to photograph the "M" in a moth wing.

Posted by fred1st on October 28, 2003 5:41 AM |

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And this winter the forensic entomology exhibit will be arriving at our very own Science Museum in Roanoke! (It travels to the Smithsonian in 2005!)

Posted by: Jessica | October 28, 2003 6:21 AM

Thanks for the links, Fred! I think both would be fascinating jobs . . . I sure wouldn't mind doing them!!!

Posted by: Artichoke Heart | October 28, 2003 2:40 PM

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