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Photo by Giovanni
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Species ID Suggestions

Family sarcophagidae

House fly

Musca domestica

Comments (1)

Good picture, flies usually buzz off by the time I can even turn on my camera :P That black and white pattern on the thorax means this is a kind of fly from the genus Sarcophaga, also called the flesh flies (a wonderful name, right?). I think it's fairly impossible to get to species level in flies, so Sarcophaga sp. is about as accurate as you can get!
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PublishedMarch 3, 2011

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