Green Bottle Fly or Lucilia scericata

F4, 3.5X, ISO100, 1/20 sec, 45um, 187 steps

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Calbost Niel

Lion

Quite a bruiser William Posted 2 years ago

William Bodine

Lion

The colors on this fly of iridescent, green, and blue are amazing. It just seems a waste on a fly. The poet Ogden Nash wrote, "God in his wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us why." Posted 2 years ago, modified 2 years ago

Ferdy Christant

Lion

Sorry, had to re-identify as the system erroneously created a new species record. Posted 2 years ago

The Common European Greenbottle Fly

The common green bottle fly is a blow-fly found in most areas of the world, and the most well-known of the numerous green bottle fly species. It is 10–14 mm long, slightly larger than a housefly, and has brilliant, metallic, blue-green or golden coloration with black markings.

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Similar species: True Flies

Species identified by Ferdy Christant