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  • As far as I can tell, the dominant subspecies of the domestic fly that took up residence on The Farm were the house, bottle both blue, or Calliphora, and green, Phaenicia, blow, and the reliable black garbage fly.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • As far as I can tell, the dominant subspecies of the domestic fly that took up residence on The Farm were the house, bottle both blue, or Calliphora, and green, Phaenicia, blow, and the reliable black garbage fly.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • As far as I can tell, the dominant subspecies of the domestic fly that took up residence on The Farm were the house, bottle both blue, or Calliphora, and green, Phaenicia, blow, and the reliable black garbage fly.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • As far as I can tell, the dominant subspecies of the domestic fly that took up residence on The Farm were the house, bottle both blue, or Calliphora, and green, Phaenicia, blow, and the reliable black garbage fly.

    MY EMPIRE OF DIRT Manny Howard 2010

  • Bluebottles (_Eristalis tenax_ and _Calliphora vomitoria_) -- would settle from time to time on the groundsel - or camomile-flowers occupied by the young Meloes and stop for a moment to suck the sweet secretions.

    The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • To purge the earth of death's impurities and cause deceased animal matter to be once more numbered among the treasures of life there are hosts of sausage queens, including, in our part of the world, the bluebottle (Calliphora vomitaria, LIN.) and the checkered flesh fly

    The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • The blow-flies (Fig. 26) (_Calliphora vomitoria_) and the blue-bottle flies (Fig. 27), (_Lucilia spp. _) and the flesh-flies (Fig. 28) (_Sarcophaga spp. _) all have habits somewhat like the screw-worm fly.

    Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane

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