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Family Calliphoridae
This page contains pictures and information about Greenbottle Blowflies that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

- Body length 8mm
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- This Blowfly are also known as Green Blowfly.
Their larvae breed mostly on living sheep and corpse. The fly is one of the
first flies to lay its eggs in a corpse. The fly is green metallic colour,
silvery head and red eyes.
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- Male
Female
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- The Blowfly feeds on nectar. It is the major pest species in sheep farming.
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- 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. Wildlife
of Tropical North Queensland - Queensland Museum Publications 2000, p108.
- 4. Lucilia sericata
(Meigen)
- Australian Insect Common Names, CSIRO 2005
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