~FOrensic Entomologist~

Job description

• Life cycle of bugs to find how long a person has been dead
• Ex: Fly eggs show that someone has been dead for a few minutes 
• Ex: Beetles show that a person has been dead for over a week.
• Apply the study of insects to crime-fighting.
• Parents using wasps to sting their child as punishment.

Employment outlook

• Constantly growing.
• Find more success working as a college professor.
• More success performing consulting work in forensics.
• Very few employed full time by police agencies.

education/Training

• Degree in entomology.
• Degree in related field like arthropodology.
• Master's degree or doctorate
• Coursework that includes forensics

Wages

Working conditions

• Perform work in labs & fields the scenes respond to.
• May be called to give reports & give courtroom testimony
• work closely with police, detectives, & other forensic scientists
• investigate gruesome crime scenes.

Related occupations

• Biological Science Teachers
• Zoologists
• Wildlife Biologist

Sources

• education-portal.com
• CFNC.org