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Green Bottle Fly - Lucillia serial

A species of blow fly that can live for several months or even for a year. Females will lay around 2000 eggs on scraps of meat and fish etc. Blow flies do have their uses too by helping forensic scientists pin down the time of death when a body is found by looking at the size of the maggots. The Green Bottle Fly is one species of fly that seldom enters the house. It is said that for every person there are 17 million flies.

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Uploaded on May 2, 2020
Taken on August 18, 2019