USE OF FLESH-FLIES (DIPTERA, SARCOPHAGIDAE) FOR ECOTOXICOLOGICAL BIOINDICATION

The use of flesh-flies (Diptera, subfamily Sarcophagidae) for large-sc ale monitoring of several pollutant groups (heavy metals, respirable a sbestos fibres, residues of organochlorine pesticides and polychlorina ted biphenyls) was studied. The experimental territory comparised Sout h and Central Moravia of the Czech Republic, which is known to be the crossway of Ponto-Pannonian, West-Carpathian and East-Hercynian distri cts. The results show that widely distributed flesh-flies represent a suitable insect taxocoenosis for biomonitoring of pollutants in differ ent kinds of habitats.