blowflies in English
noun
1
a large and typically metallic-colored fly that lays its eggs on meat and carcasses.
What was decomposing the carcasses, given the total absence of fossils of the larger flies, such as flesh flies and blowflies (whose larvae, which we call maggots, feed on carrion)?
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1. And blowflies just can't help themselves.
2. Livestock and pets can be afflicted with myiasis, when Botflies, blowflies, or screwflies parasitize them
3. Blowfly (plural blowflies) Any of various flies of the family Calliphoridae that lay their eggs in rotting meat, dung , or open wounds