SC - Blowflies. Way, way, way OT and slightly silly

[Jeff Heilveil]

My better text is in the lab but...

Blow Flies, a Dipteran of the family Calliphoridae, These are similar to
the Tachinidae, however the prstscutellum is not developed.  A large group
of flies, the members are "common and abindant.  Most species are as large
as the house fly (M. domestica) and some are larger.  Many are metallic
bluish or green.  Larvae are generally scavengers, living in carrion,
dung, and similar materials; most maggots one finds in the body of dead
animals are blow fly larvae.  Larvae usually feed on dead tissue, but a
few, such as the Screw-Worm, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel), may
attack living tissue (in an animal's nostrils or in wounds)."

HTH 
bogdan

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Jeffrey Heilveil				Bogdan din Brasov
Department of Entomology		    MoAS, Barony of Wurm Wald
University of Illinois		       Bucatar-sef, Liedmeister, Wurm Wald
heilveil at uiuc.edu				 Middle Kingdom
(217) 398-9529

Imagine a river.  The water flows by unceasingly, pure and cold.  Fish
swim by your feet uncaring of your presence.  An endless variety of
insects crawl about the stones.  The plants reach out with the current,
lazily undulating to the rhythm of the flow.  That is what life is all
about.  Notice everything, and realize that there is something to learn
from everything you see or hear.
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