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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Blow Flies (Calliphoridae) » Lucilia » Common Green Bottle Fly (Lucilia sericata)
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Fly - Lucilia sericata
Copyright © 2008 Bill Johnson

Fly - Lucilia sericata
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA
August 15, 2008
Is this a Green Bottle Fly - Lucilia sericata? Thanks.
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Contributed by Bill Johnson on 16 August, 2008 - 10:53am
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

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Ken Schneider, 5 November, 2008 - 3:36pm login or register to post comments

Calliphoridae
This is a blowfly, and could well be Lucilia sericata
… Norm Woodley, 5 November, 2008 - 2:32pm login or register to post comments

Fly -
I agree with your family ID (blow fly), but I don't know enough to confirm a genus or species-level ID. It can be hard to get these flies further than family level, I believe, although you may be right about this one... Will move to Flies for now, in the hopes that an expert will comment.
… Ken Schneider, 9 September, 2008 - 6:37pm login or register to post comments

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