greenbottle

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noun

a common dipterous fly, Lucilia caesar, that has a dark greenish body with a metallic lustre and lays its eggs in carrion: family Calliphoridae

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Blue colors are common in tarantulas, such as this greenbottle blue tarantula.

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Bluebottles, greenbottles, and all the flies of metallic luster were gathered at the Lucullan feast of corruption.

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In Britain, they include the common bluebottle and greenbottle, and they are the forensic entomologist's raw material.

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As long as she does not feel ripe eggs coming to her oviduct, the greenbottle remains in the sun, hovering to and fro and sipping modest mouthfuls from the carcass.

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Many of them make off with a greenbottle egg between their teeth.

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greenbone greenbottle fly

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