* Undergraduate co-author • ^ Graduate student co-author
Weidner, L.M., Hans, K.R., and T.L. Whitworth.
Diversity and Taxonomy of Forensically Relevant Blow Flies (pp. 21–40)
In The Calliphoridae of Forensic Significance, D. Rivers & J. Wallace (Eds.), Academic Press. 2026.
Hans, K.R. and L.M. Weidner.
Calliphoridae Community Succession (pp. 177–186)
In The Calliphoridae of Forensic Significance, D. Rivers & J. Wallace (Eds.), Academic Press. 2026.
Weidner, L.M. and R.W. Merritt.
Arthropod Communities of Terrestrial Vertebrate Carrion (pp. 191–210)
In Carrion Ecology, Evolution and Their Applications, 2nd Ed., M.E. Benbow, J.K. Tomberlin, & A.M. Tarone (Eds.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 2025.
Tomberlin, J., Cammack, J., Weidner, L., & R. Puckett.
Forensic Entomology (pp. 163–172)
In Geriatric Forensic Medicine and Pathology, K. Collins & R. Byard (Eds.), Cambridge University Press. 2020.
Gemmellaro, M.D. and L.M. Weidner.
The Professional History of Forensic Entomology (pp. 547–554)
In Forensic Entomology: The Utility of Arthropods in Legal Investigations, 3rd ed., J.H. Byrd & J.K. Tomberlin (Eds.), CRC Press. 2019.
Huntington, T.E., Weidner, L.M., and R.D. Hall.
Introduction: Current Perceptions and Status of Forensic Entomology (pp. xxiii–xxxiv)
In Forensic Entomology: The Utility of Arthropods in Legal Investigations, 3rd ed., J.H. Byrd & J.K. Tomberlin (Eds.), CRC Press. 2019.
Kahler, G.V. and L.M. Weidner.
Effects of elevation, season and bait type on assemblage of forensically relevant blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in contrasting habitats of northwestern Arizona.
Medical and Veterinary Entomology 40(3): 647-658. 2026.
Gemmellaro, M.D., Anderson, G.S., Hamilton, G., and L. Weidner.
Food preferences of adult male and female Calliphora vicina (Diptera: Calliphoridae).
Canadian Society of Forensic Science Journal. 1–15. 2025.
Gemmellaro, M.D., Anderson, G.S., Hamilton, G.C., Domínguez-Trujillo, M., and L.M. Weidner.
Species richness and distribution of Calliphoridae along an elevation gradient in Sicily (Italy) and Ecuador.
Insects 16(5): 498. 2025.
Weidner, L.M. and A.W. Meeds.
Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart) (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Established in Arizona.
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 125(4): 507–511. 2024.
Gemmellaro, D., Forzisi, E., Andersons, G., Hamilton, G., and L. Weidner.
A geometric morphometric analysis of wing variations in shape and size of the blue bottle fly Calliphora vicina (Diptera: Calliphoridae).
Environmental Entomology nvae108: 1–10. 2024.
Meeds, A.W., Rusch, T., Falcone, D.L.*, and L.M. Weidner.
A survey of blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) populations in Phoenix Arizona.
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1158347. 2023.
Weidner, L. and G. Powell.
Forensically important sap beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) of North America.
Journal of Forensic Entomology 1. 2023.
Monzon, M.A.^, Weidner, L.M., Rusch, T.W., Nehrozoglu, S.*, and G. Hamilton.
High Temperature Limits of Survival and Oviposition of Phormia regina (Meigen) and Lucilia sericata (Meigen).
Insects 13(11): 991. 2022.
Noblesse, A.P.*, Meeds, A.W., and L.M. Weidner.
Blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) and the American diet: Effects of fat content on blow fly development.
Journal of Medical Entomology 59(4): 1191–1197. 2022.
Jeong, Y., Weidner, L.M., Pergande, S.*, Gemmellaro, D., Jennings, D.E., and K.R. Hans.
Biodiversity of forensically relevant blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) at the Anthropology Research Facility in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
Insects 13(2): 109. 2022.
Weidner, L.M., Byrd, J., Sutton, L., and K.R. Hans.
Forensic Entomology: An introduction to the literature of the United States.
WIREs Forensic Science 3(5): e1435. 2021.
Weidner, L.M. and K.R. Hans.
A review of Forensic Entomology literature in the Northeastern United States.
WIREs Forensic Science 3(5): e1402. 2021.
Hans, K.R., Yoho, K.^, Parrott, J.J., and L.M. Weidner.
A review of Forensic Entomology literature in the Mountain Prairie region of the United States.
WIREs Forensic Science 3(5): e1412. 2021.
Hans, K.R., Yoho, K.^, Robbins, H.*, and L.M. Weidner.
A review of the Forensic Entomology literature in the midwestern United States.
WIREs Forensic Science 3(5): e1424. 2021.
Weidner, L.M., Meeds, A.W., Noblesse, A.P.*, and K.R. Hans.
A review of Forensic Entomology literature in the southwestern United States.
WIREs Forensic Science 3(5): e1421. 2021.
Weidner, L.M. and G.S. Powell^.
Key to the forensically important beetle (Insecta: Coleoptera) families of North America.
Journal of Forensic Science Education 3(1). 2021.
Nigoghosian, G.^, Weidner, L.M., and T. Stamper.
Technical Note: A technique to mount Sarcophagidae and Calliphoridae (Diptera) larvae for forensic identification using geometric morphometrics.
Forensic Science International: Synergy 3: 100135. 2021.
Weidner, L.M., Nigoghosian, G.^, Yoho, K.C.^, Parrott, J.J. and K.R. Hans.
An analysis of forensically important insects associated with human remains in Indiana, USA.
Journal of Forensic Science 65(6): 2036–2041. 2020.
Stamper, T.S., Weidner, L.M., Nigoghosian, G., Johnson, N., Wang, C., and C. Levesque-Bristol.
Towards understanding how to instruct students in dichotomous identification keys in a mixed STEM forensic science education environment.
Journal of Forensic Science Education 2(1). 2020.
Weidner, L.M., Nigoghosian, G.^, Hanau, C.G.*, and D.E. Jennings.
Analysis of alternative food sources for rearing entomological evidence.
Journal of Medical Entomology 57(5): 1407–1410. 2020.
Gemmellaro, M.D.^, Bucolo C., Musumeci E., and L.M. Weidner.
First observations of initial blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) activity on lava fields and in subterranean environments in Sicily in cool temperatures.
Journal of Medical Entomology 55(6): 1622–1626. 2018.
Weidner, L.M., Gemmellaro, M.D.^, Tomberlin, J.K., and G.C. Hamilton.
Evaluation of bait traps as a means to predict initial blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) communities associated with decomposing swine remains in New Jersey, US.
Forensic Science International 278: 95–100. 2017.
Weidner, L.M., Monzon, M.A.*, and G.C. Hamilton.
Death eaters respond to the dark mark of decomposition by day and night: observations of initial insect activity on pig carcasses.
International Journal of Legal Medicine 130: 1633–1637. 2016.
Weidner, L.M., Jennings D.E., Tomberlin, J.K., and G.C. Hamilton.
Seasonal and geographic variation in biodiversity of forensically important blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in New Jersey, USA.
Journal of Medical Entomology 52: 937–946. 2015.
Puvabanditsin, S., Malik L., Weidner, L.M., Jadhav, S., Sanderman, J., and R. Mehta.
Neonatal umbilical cord myiasis in New Jersey.
Journal of Perinatology 34(9): 718–719. 2014.
Weidner, L.M., Tomberlin, J.K., and G.C. Hamilton.
Development of Lucilia coeruleiviridis (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in New Jersey, USA.
Florida Entomologist 97(2): 849–851. 2014.