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blowfly
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blowfly
a member of the family Calliphoridae of insects.
blowfly strike
invasion of skin or exposed mucosae by blowfly larvae. See also cutaneous myiasis.
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But as time goes on and the beggars and touts and scam artists swarm insistently around you like a cloud of blowflies and will not leave you alone, you end up shouting at them: "La shukran
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The procedure, generally performed without anesthetics, guards against infestation by blowflies whose eggs hatch into flesh-eating maggots.
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Stopping this practice would increase the risk of lambs being attacked by blowflies and literally eaten alive by maggots.
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