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Coffin Fly
Conicera tibialis
Conicera tibialis, commonly known as the coffin fly, is a phorid fly in the genus Conicera known for its occurrence on buried human cadavers. Adult female coffin flies can burrow up to 2 meters (6.6 ft) into soil and enter coffins in order to lay eggs on or near the resting corpse. Maggots feed on the flesh of the corpse after hatching, with a preference for lean muscular tissue. Coffin flies sometimes do not surface at all—multiple...
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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 363631.