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Fly - Cynomya cadaverina
Copyright © 2009 Molly Jacobson

Fly - Cynomya cadaverina
Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
April 26, 2009
Size: about 1/2-3/4 in.
I followed this fly (really it followed me) for a hour in the park when I was eating lunch. All this time I thought it was a Blue Bottle Fly but then I looked it up and I was wrong.
Contributed by Molly Jacobson on 30 April, 2009 - 5:51pm
Last updated 30 October, 2010 - 11:19am

Wrong?
How are you wrong? Looks like probably Cynomya cadaverina to me. Nice image. Definitely Calliphoridae at any rate. What, pray tell, was in your lunch? :-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 30 April, 2009 - 6:14pm

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