Bluebottle - Chrysomya rufifacies
Family Calliphoridae
This page contains pictures and information about Bluebottle Blowflies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 8mm
- This Bluebottle fly is also known as Green Hairy Maggot Blowfly.
- Male Female
- The fly is medium in size with metallic green body, with a distinct blue hue when viewed under bright sunlit conditions. It has a silvery head and red eyes. It has the board and round abdomen.
- Their larvae are predaceous, feeding on the larvae of earlier-arriving flies. Females do not lay their eggs in a corpse until the body is partially decomposed and maggots are available as prey.
- Reference:
- 1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p781.
- 2. Insects of Australia and New Zealand - R. J. Tillyard, Angus & Robertson, Ltd, Sydney, 1926, p375.
- 3. Chrysomya rufifacies (Macquart) - - Australian Insect Common Names, CSIRO 2005
- 4. hairy maggot blow fly - by Jason H. Byrd, University of Florida, 1998
- 5. Hairy Maggot Blowfly - Diptera (flies) of Orange County, California, by Peter J. Bryant
- 1. Insects of Australia, CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p781.
