Insects are increasingly being used to trace absconding murderers. When an animal or an individual dies and the body is left exposed, flies and other insects are attracted to the remains. Forensic entomology is a subject that deals with the study of those forensically important insects and the testimony dealing with such insects in criminal proceedings. This study is associated with death investigations. In the last 15 years, forensic entomology has become more and more common in police investigations. Though other forensic methods are equally or more accurate than the insect evidence, but after 72 hours, insect evidence is most accurate and sometimes the only method of determining elapsed time since death. Many times, the body is moved after death from the crime scene to a hiding place but some of the insects from the knowledge of their actual habitat indicate and prove the movement of body and gives clue of the area of murder. So insects are no less than criminal investigators but their accuracy depends on their suitable conditions.
