Medicocriminal Entomology Lyrics - Singles - The County Medical Examiners

When unidentified remains are relinquished to our care 

That are so decayed and liquefied as to make diagnosis 

quite a chore 

When the putrescent canvas of death is teeming with 

bristling life 

With tiny anthropoid stowaways nestled in every pore... 

My autopsy technicians mistake the corpse shudder for 

a cadaveric spasm 

But upon closer inspection they witness the nauseating 

wave of insect activity 

The feasting and chatter drowns the neon hum from the 

morgue lamps and fans 

And the ambient temperature rises 5 degrees as their 

chitinous bodies skitter in putridity... 

The corpse is alive...reanimated through entomological 

means 

The John Doe swells...as parasitic activity literally 

bursts through his seams 

Seeping rivers of eggs...hatching larvae are hurriedly 

washed down the drain 

Call the Forensic Entomologist...everyone knows he's got 

bugs on the brain... 

...Carcass hive... 

...Cadaverine nest... 

The Forensic Entomologist is a specialist in this 

field 

Of which there are three separate and distinct 

components 

The Urban field deals with insect/human environment 

matters 

Stored-Products handles infestation of commodities and 

products... 

But the one that we require is the Medicolegal 

Entomology field 

With its eccentric bug experts and their forensic 

Ph.D.'s 

They've classified and catalogued their necrophilous 

winged friends 

And can determine PMI by the stadiums and stages of 

insect activity... 

...Blowflies...spiders...beetles...mites and lice... 

...Maggots...larvae...pupa...hatch and fly... 

...Crawling...squirming...breeding...burrowing... 

...Medicocriminal entomology... 

The Forensic Entomologist will analyze the cadaveric 

colonization 

Taking samples and noting the current state of the 

Blowfly population 

After determining the extent of the recent Coleoptera 

infestation 

He will estimate the time of death so that we may 

continue with the examination... 

...When tissue liquefies and attracts the clavicorn ... 

...The flies are drawn and oviposit their eggs... 

...From this predictable process, tiny maggots are born... 

...Named Instar Larvae, which then grow to Prepupae... 

The maggot molts through three instar stages, plumping 

as they gnaw 

Colonies hatch together and migrate across the corpse 

as a collective group 

As a result of this infestation, they disseminate 

bacteria and secrete enzymes 

Which enable nearly all of the soft tissue to be 

dissolved and consumed... 

Depending on the habitat and the abundance of the 

region 

The expert can determine if the Diptera is currently 

in season 

Whether the Bottle fly prefers bright sunlight or 

shade 

And if the Coleopteran is nocturnal or active during 

the day... 

Oviposited eggs encrust the natural orifices and moist 

recesses 

Maggots swim in wound sites consuming rotting necrotic 

flesh 

The examiner's gloved hand is thrust wrist-deep in 

this bug colony 

Searching through the thriving mush for additional 

squirming evidence... 

...Parasitic swarm... 

...Maggot colony... 

...Blowflies...spiders...beetles...mites and lice... 

...Maggots...larvae...pupa...hatch and fly... 

...Crawling...squirming...breeding...burrowing... 

...Medicocriminal entomology...