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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Blow Flies (Calliphoridae) » Lucilia » Common green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata)
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Green Bottle Fly - Lucilia sericata
Copyright © 2006 Mike Future

Green Bottle Fly - Lucilia sericata
Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
June 12, 2006
I saw this fly on the pine tree in my front yard

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Contributed by Mike Future on 12 June, 2006 - 5:26pm
Last updated 28 June, 2009 - 6:03pm

probable Lucilia sericata
Terry Whitworth det.

Moved from Blow Flies.
… v belov, 28 June, 2009 - 6:03pm login or register to post comments

Exquisite.
Fantastic image of a blow fly, probably genus Lucilia.
… Eric R. Eaton, 21 June, 2006 - 4:34pm login or register to post comments

 
My other image of this fly
was identified as a Green Bottle. Which is it?
… Mike Future, 24 June, 2006 - 4:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Green Bottle fly
is a type of blow fly.
… Lynette Schimming, 28 August, 2006 - 8:05am login or register to post comments

 
Fly Names ?
whence cometh "blow" and "bottle" ? Thanks
… Keith Carter, 23 March, 2007 - 1:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Blow fly and bottle fly
Blow fly refers to an entire family of flies... the Calliphoridae family. The Green Bottle fly is the common name for a specific species... Lucilia sericata.
… Lynette Schimming, 23 March, 2007 - 7:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Fly names
OK & thanks,but, how did they come to have those names(common)?
I.E. Could, perhaps,the Blow flies have been, at some time, seen to
come into habitats by being blown there by wind?? Could, perhaps, the Green Bottle fly have first been seen in a green bottle? Or, maybe no one knows the common name etymology?

Here's Wikipedia def.: The name blow-fly comes from an older English term for meat that had eggs laid on it, which was said to be fly blown. Blow-flies are usually the first insect to come in contact with a dead animal.
… Keith Carter, 23 March, 2007 - 11:57pm login or register to post comments

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