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Blue Bottle Blowfly

Chrysomya sp.

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Field Notes

Description:

Green metallic flies with yellow faces and brown eyes. Male and female

Habitat:

on a tortured Casuarina with few needles left in a ridgetop wood in a suburb by the sea. Flies like this get onto twigs without leaves so they can rest on something that is too small for a predator to attack tham and no leaves to slap them in the breeze and yet stiff enough to not fall off

Notes:

no research. File #twig fly ms 94.

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