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Blue Blowfly
Plate 1 of 9. (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (CC BY) · via iNaturalist

Blue Blowfly

Calliphora vicina

Calliphora vicina is a member of the family Calliphoridae, which includes blow flies and bottle flies. These flies are important in the field of forensic entomology. C. vicina is currently one of the most entomologically important fly species because of its consistent time of arrival and colonization of the body following death.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 119115.