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Calliphoridae

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n.1.a natural family comprising the blowflies.
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Noun1.Calliphoridae - blowflies
family Calliphoridae
arthropod family - any of the arthropods
Diptera, order Diptera - a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies
Calliphora, genus Calliphora - type genus of the Calliphoridae: blowflies
genus Lucilia, Lucilia - greenbottle flies
genus Sarcophaga, Sarcophaga - flesh flies


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If present, adult muscoid pest flies (house flies, Musca domestica; stable flies, Stomoxys calcitrans; and blow flies, Calliphoridae sp.
Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli O157 in agricultural fair livestock, ... by Durso, Lisa M. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
These insects are highly predictable as larvae," says Hall, noting that certain insects, especially blowflies of the family Calliphoridae, typically discover and lay eggs on fresh corpses very soon after death, and these eggs develop into adults on predictable schedules.
Incrimination by insect: private eyes find a friend in flies by Weiss, Rick / Science News
The flies, identified primarily to the order Diptera and the families Muscidae and Calliphoridae, were counted; the count showed that 917 [+ or -] standard deviation (SD) (843.
Flies and Campylobacter infection of broiler flocks by Madsen, Mogens / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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