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Green Bottle Fly

Phaenicia sp.

Photo by Dan Doucette
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43.1404, -79.104

Field Notes

Description:

larger than housefly, bright metallic green, black bristlelike hair

Habitat:

temperate forest

Notes:

I spotted this at Allens Halfway Sandpit. It stayed fairly close while I got closer and closer.

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