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Rod Hill United Kingdom
"Bluebottle Fly"
"luebottle (Blow Fly) Calliphora vomitoria
This image is of the blowfly (cluster fly) known as a Bluebottle (Calliphora vomitoria) and belongs to Class Insecta, Order Diptera, Suborder Brachycera, Family Calliphoridae, Subfamily Calliphorinae and Genus Calliophora. Its larvae, white maggots are often used for fishing bait.
The blowflies (also written as blow fly) are usually of a bright metallic green, blue or black hue and quite audible in flight. There are about 1000 species described worldwide and about 38 species occur in the UK. In fact this fly is virtually identical too Calliphora vicina. However in C vomitoria the jowels have orange/peach coloured hairs as can be seen here in this image and is the only difference of note. The term blow fly came from the old English, where meat that had flies eggs laid on it i.e. ?????fly blown?????. The larvae of most species of blow flies are carrion and dung feeders, in the case of Calliphora they are carrion feeders. As such these blow flies have a l"
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