Common Green Bottle Fly or Sheep Blow Fly Lucilia sericata (Meigen) (Insecta: Diptera: Calliphoridae)

The common green bottle fly is a common visitor to carrion, feces, and garbage. Like many of the other blow flies, it plays an important role in forensic, medical, and veterinary science. Larvae or maggots help forensic scientists to determine the period of insect colonization as it relates to the t...

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Main Authors: Matthew Anderson, Phillip E. Kaufman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries 2011-12-01
Series:EDIS
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Online Access:https://journals.flvc.org/edis/article/view/119454
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