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Blue Bottle fly

Calliphora vomitoria

Photo by keithp2012
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Not as common as the Green Bottle fly, but still common. Infests garbage or lays eggs on roadkill.

Habitat:

Garbage,dumpsters,houses by accident, near anything dead.

Notes:

Can hybridize with green bottle fly. Adults drink plant nectar. Maggots eat rotting garbage,feces, and dead animals. These are a bit larger than the green bottle fly.

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PublishedSeptember 7, 2010

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