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Flesh fly

Description:

Flesh flies usually have gray bodies with three black stripes on the thorax. The abdomen has a light and dark gray checkerboard pattern and is often red at the tip. They differ from most flies in that they are ovoviviparous, opportunistically depositing hatched or hatching maggots instead of eggs on carrion, dung, decaying material, or open wounds of mammals, hence their common name

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Maria dB
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Maria dB

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Spotted on May 27, 2013
Submitted on Jul 7, 2013

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