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blowfly

any of various dipterous flies of the genus Calliphora and related genera that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung, carrion, and open wounds: family Calliphoridae
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The present work represents series of studies aiming to determine local insect faunas of Ankara and was directed towards identifying primary early blowfly species colonizing cadavers and having forensic importance in Cebeci, a district located in the center of Ankara.
Necrophagous Diptera belongs to several taxonomic groups such as blowfly (Calliphoridae), flesh fly (Sarcophagidae).
One day I struck gold, spending just ten cents on my first copy of a Blowfly LP at the local used-record store where 1 worked on weekends during my teenage years.
Insect infestation by house fly, blowfly and beetle fly larvae cause up to 30% loss of the product.
The data were tested for normality using the D'Agostino test and the values for rainfall and blowfly abundance were logaritimized in order to be used in parametric tests.
This blowfly is also forensically important as it has been recorded as being one of the first species to colonise decomposing bodies, providing useful information for determining postmortem interval [4, 5].
The second section, 'Happiness is Just a Waste of Time' expands the theme with poems about girls in general, with many of the images from the first section extended and re-applied, while the last 'Blowfly', deals with married women.
There, the entomologists identified thethem as a particular kind of blowfly. They narrowed down the time since the body parts had been dumped as between 10 and 12 days.
A COUPLE of weeks ago in this column, I mentioned about the risks of blowfly strike at this time of the year.
Lucilia sericata (Meigen, 1826) is a cosmopolitan greenbottle blowfly that originates from Europe and which is used in maggot debridement therapy (MDT)--the use of maggots to clean necrotic wounds on living human beings (Sherman et al.
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