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Across 1. The first bug to arrive at a dead body 2. The study of insects and other arthropods to legal issues 3. The last stage of the insect 6. Lacking backbone 7. Eat dead vertebrate bodies 8. To shed an outer covering 11. Legless larva 13. Shows conditions of weather before body was found 15. Where the maggots like to be when feasting 16. A stage between larva and adult 17. The development of an insect larva 18. A bug that cleans bones

Down 1. Second stage of decay, gases form from bacteria 3. An invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton, a segmented body nd jointed appendages 4. The transformation cycle 5. A mature form of insect 9. Interval elapsed since a person died 10. The first stage of an insect 12. Skin breaks down and smell is at worst 14. Flies lay eggs in/near cavities