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Green Bottle - Lucilia cuprina These flies are particularly difficult for sheep as they cause "fly strike". Amazing colours, so metallic. Adelaide,Green Bottle,Lucilia cuprina,South Australia Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Green Bottle - Lucilia cuprina

These flies are particularly difficult for sheep as they cause "fly strike". Amazing colours, so metallic.

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  1. View WildFlower's profile
    WildFlower
    Lion
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    How can you tell from this photo it is a Lucilia cuprina and not Lucilia sericata or another species? Do you have other photos showing the head?
    http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=3908
    http://bugguide.net/node/view/232115     Posted 8 years ago
  2. View betsuin's profile
    betsuin
    Eagle Owl
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    Seemed the most likely candidate as the species is in the area and overall morphology fits ... I should be able to get more photos .. the colour hue does rather depend upon which angle one views the insect. Posted 8 years ago

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The Australian Sheep Blow Fly

The species "Lucilia cuprina" is more commonly known as the Australian sheep blowfly. It belongs to the blow-fly family Calliphoridae, and while some authorities combine the blow flies and the flesh flies together into the Metopiidae family, distinguishable characteristics allow for the separation.

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Similar species: True Flies
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Uploaded Jan 2, 2017. Captured Jan 2, 2017 17:37.
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  • Canon EOS Kiss X5
  • f/9.0
  • 1/197s
  • ISO100
  • 55mm