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Lucilia

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Lucilia
a genus of blowflies in the family Calliphoridae.
Lucilia caesar, Lucilia illustris
flies with bright metallic colors. Called copper-bottle or green-bottle flies.
Lucilia cuprina, Lucilia sericata
important causes of blowfly strike in sheep. See also cutaneous myiasis.
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Downer and his wife, Lucilia, of West Boylston; a daughter, Tracy A.
Daniel Bradford Downer by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
These flies included Stomoxys calcitrans, in which the adults feed on animal and human blood, and the blowflies Lucilia coeruleiviridis and L.
Coxiella burnetii in wild-caught filth flies by Nelder, Mark P.; Lloyd, John E.; Loftis, Amanda D.; Reeves, Will K. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
They used sterile "free-range" larvae from the green bottle fly Lucilia Sericata, which were applied between two and eight times for four days at a time.
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