blow-flies

A Society case — cream for all the cats in Society, muck for all the blow-flies in the streets — and Fleur the hub of it!

The Silver Spoon 2004

Nothing could have filtered that dirty scum-laden, bacteria-infested water swarming with blow-flies, to make it fit for human consumption.

Chapter 4: The March 1996

In some cases, as with the blow-flies, the maggot may hatch from the egg while yet in the parent's body, when the active larva is born alive.

An Elementary Study of Insects Leonard Haseman

In a good many cases he found that the blow-flies had worked havoc, so that, working single-handed, he had a great deal to do; and by the time he had thrown a number of lusty calves and treated their sides with his bottle of maggot medicine, he had pretty well worn-out the day.

The Wrong Woman Charles D. Stewart

The mosquitoes and blow-flies bit them all the time.

The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Katherine Chandler

He gazed ruefully at the white sandbags and an army ration of cheese rolled up in a paper on which blow-flies were congregating.

The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926

They died from screw-worms, deposited by blow-flies in the wounds left by the bats, against which the cattle could not protect themselves.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

One of the greatest nuisances we had to put up with was the abundance of common "blue bottles" or blow-flies.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923

Is attractive to blow-flies, which quickly fill it with 'skippers' if they can get at it.

Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918

This day his discourse was of blow-flies; I cared not though it had been of manure.

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916