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Commonly known as a green bottle fly.

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The blow fly is a member of the family Calliphoridae, and like many of the other blow flies, it plays an important role in forensic, medical and veterinary science.

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The species or organ on which the larvae feed, might significantly alter the rate of growth.

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"They are agents for assessing ecological succession or decomposition and postmortem interval estimation, and for maggot debridement therapy, respectively."

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Medical treatment using maggot therapy can help to heal infections that are otherwise incurable (Rueda et al. 2010).

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In the field of veterinary medicine, feeding by larval L. sericata can cause substantial losses in animals and production (Strikewise 2007).

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One of the first insects to arrive at a corpse.

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They also state that calliphorids, along with scarophagids (flesh flies) and muscids (filth flies) are the most important species in providing accurate PMI estimations.

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Lucilia sericata also has been shown to oviposit in cool nocturnal conditions, which are quite uncharacteristic to the normal daytime ovipositing behavior of it and other calliphorids (Catts and Goff 1992).

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The immature flies are used to estimate the minimum portion of the post-mortem interval, known as PMI, in a multitude of settings (Rueda et al. 2010).

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“Growth Rates of the Blowfly, Lucilia Sericata, on Different Body Tissues.” Pubmed, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16410165.

“Lucilia Sericata.” Naturespot, www.naturespot.org.uk/species/lucilia-sericata.

https://diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=46234

Berger, Joseph. “Common Green Bottle Fly (Lucilia Sericata).” ForestryImages, www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=5473978.