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Green bottle fly

Lucilia

Photo by bluevizion
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Field Notes

Description:

Small fly with metallic green body and red eyes

Habitat:

Spotted in a garden in Pretoria, South Africa

Reference Links:

Lucilia (fly)

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Comments (2)
bluevizion
they do look very similar. i'm not 100% sure about the classification but found some similar photos searching the web. do a google picture search for "green bottle fly" to compare
Jonathan Sequeira
I add a very similar species I will make a comment so you can see it too....

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PublishedMay 19, 2011

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