Annotated Bibliography
“Bug Detectives.” Dirty Jobs. Discovery. Season 7, episode 8. Broadcasted on November 28, 2010. This episode presents a lively overview of work as at the Forensic Entomology Research Center (FERC) at Purdue University, featuring examples of the behaviors of maggots at four stages of decomposition of pig cadavers.
Amendt, Jens, Roman Krettek, and Richard Zehner. "Forensic Entomology." Naturwissenschaften 91, no. 2 (2004): 51-65.
Arnett, Ross H., and Richard L. Jacques. Simon and Schuster's Guide to Insects. Simon and Schuster, 1981. This classic field guide provides illustrations to help students match collected specimens by visual features before reading extensive descriptions about size, habitats, and characteristics.
Benecke, Mark, and Rüdiger Lessig. "Child Neglect and Forensic Entomology." Forensic Science International 120, no. 1 (2001): 155-159.
Benecke, Mark. "A Brief History of Forensic Entomology." Forensic Science International 120, no. 1 (2001): 2-14. In a concise summary, key knowledge in how and why forensic entomology became useful are presented.
Benecke, Mark. "Six Forensic Entomology Cases: Description and Commentary." Journal of Forensic Science 43, no. 4 (1998): 797-805. Brief descriptions of the characteristic insects that provided key evidence to six cases and their life cycles exemplify the roles of forensic entomologists.
Byrd, Jason H., and James L. Castner, eds. Forensic Entomology: The Utility of Arthropods in Legal Investigations. CRC Press, 2009. Several chapters present information about specific arthropods that were used in cases of violent crime, and hence this guide could be used to retrieve case studies.
Catts, E. P., and M. Lee Goff. "Forensic Entomology in Criminal Investigations." Annual Review of Entomology 37, no. 1 (1992): 253-272.
Common Core State Standards Initiative. Retrieved from http://www.corestandards.org/ on 3 June 2016.
Coyne, Jerry A. Why Evolution is True. Penguin, 2009.
Crime San Jose Interactive Map. http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-jose/crime/ Accessed on 1 June 2016.
Gould, Stephen J. Nonoverlapping Magisteria. Natural History, March 1997.
Imms, Augustus Daniel, Owain W. Richards, and Richard Gareth Davies, eds. Imms’ General Textbook of Entomology: Volume 2: Classification and Biology. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012.
Kimsey, Lynn. The Case of the Red-Shanked Grasshopper. Los Angeles Times, July 4, 2007.
Lamon, James. Scientists Feel the Sting over Insect Collecting in India. Financial Times, October 31, 2008.
Lost Ladybug Project. http://www.lostladybug.org/ Accessed on 27 June 2016. This website originated as a citizen science project at Cornell University to gather data about endangered, exotic, and invasive species of ladybugs. Students can catch ladybugs and submit photographs to help researchers document geographic populations.
Louv, Richard. Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Algonquin Books, 2008. With increasing hype about attention deficit disorder, Louv argues that perhaps children benefit from more interaction and stimulation from the natural world.
Mayhew, Peter J. "Why are there so many insect species? Perspectives from fossils and phylogenies." Biological Reviews 82, no. 3 (2007): 425-454. This article presents the hypotheses and contradictions for explanations of insect speciosity.
McGavin, George C., and G. McGavin. Essential Entomology: An Order-by-Order Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2001. Introduction. This is an introductory textbook for entomology students and provides consolidated background information organized by chapters.
Mullen, Sean P., and Kerry L. Shaw. "Insect Speciation Rules: Unifying Concepts in Speciation Research." Annual Review of Entomology, 59 (2014): 339-361.
NGSS Lead States. 2013. Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Nicholson, David B., Peter J. Mayhew, and Andrew J. Ross. "Changes to the Fossil Record of Insects Through Fifteen Years of Discovery." PloS One 10, No. 7 (2015): E0128554. The fossil record demonstrates the differences between primitive and non-primitive insects, and this article updates categories and phylogenies of insects.
Price, Trevor D., Daniel M. Hooper, Caitlyn D. Buchanan, Ulf S. Johansson, D. Thomas Tietze, Per Alström, Urban Olsson et al. "Niche filling slows the diversification of Himalayan songbirds." Nature 509, no. 7499 (2014): 222-225. This paper suggests that in birds, species diversification is slowed as populations stabilize in niches.
Saferstein, Richard. "Criminalistics: An introduction to forensic science." (2004). This textbook includes a brief section about careers in forensic entomology.
Schoener, Thomas W., and Daniel H. Janzen. "Notes on Environmental Determinants of Tropical Versus Temperate Insect Size Patterns." The American Naturalist 102, no. 925 (1968): 207-24. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2459024.
Stork, Nigel E. "Insect diversity: facts, fiction and speculation." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 35, no. 4 (1988): 321-337. This paper is an older discussion of the reasons for insect speciosity.
United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Information accessed on 14 July, 2016. https://www.fws.gov/international/laws-treaties-agreements/us-conservation-laws/lacey-act.html
Weiner, Jonathan. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time. Vintage, 2014. This novel provides an overview of evolution using the research of Peter and Rosemary Grant on the Galapagos Islands.
Yeh, Pamela J. "Rapid Evolution of a Sexually Selected Trait Following Population Establishment in a Novel Habitat." Evolution 58, no. 1 (2004): 166-174. Sexual selection occurs in many species, and although this article focuses on birds, many of the underlying concepts are present in insects when introduced to a new habitat.
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