blowfly

Instead, insects -- particularly carrion beetles and blowflies -- act as microbe carriers.

"It could have been DNA from a blowfly," Holmes says.

Brother of the blowfly & godhead, you work magic Over battlefields, In slabs of bad pork & flophouses.

The process of decay is driven by scavengers, in nature beginning with vultures and blowflies and ending with fungi and bacteria.

Another discovery was that non-scavenger birds such as the meadow pipit, northern wheatear, common reed bunting, bluethroat and lapland bunting all fed on the “bloom” of arthropods, such as blowfly, that developed on the carrion.