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Blowfly

noun
1.
Large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds.  Synonym: blow fly.






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"Blowfly" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the shade while we were here. The flies at this place, and indeed for weeks before we reached it, were terribly numerous, and we were troubled also with myriads of the large March flies, those horrid pests about twice the size of the blowfly, and which bite men, horses, and camels, and all other animals indiscriminately. These wretches would not allow either us or the animals a moment's respite, from dawn to dusk; they almost ate the poor creatures alive, and kept them in a state of perpetual motion in their ...
— Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles



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