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Calliphora

 [kah-lif´o-rah]
a genus of flies, the blowflies or bluebottle flies, which deposit their eggs in decaying matter, on wounds, or in body openings; the maggots are a cause of myiasis.

Calliphora

(kă-lif'ō-ră),
A genus of blowflies (family Calliphoridae, order Diptera), the bluebottle flies, the larvae of which feed on dead flesh. Calliphora vomitoria and Calliphora vicina are common species in the U.S.
[G. kalli, beauty, + phoros, bearing]

Calliphora

/Cal·liph·o·ra/ (kah-lif´o-rah) a genus of flies, including the blowflies and bluebottle flies, which deposit their eggs in decaying matter, on wounds, or in body openings; the maggots are a cause of myiasis.

Calliphora

a genus of flies which includes C. augur, C. australis, C. erythrocephala, C. fallax, C. hilli, C. novica, C. stygia and C. vomitoria. They may initiate blowfly strike in sheep but they mainly assume importance in sheep that are already infested.
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vicina, 3degC for Calliphora vomitoria and 9degC for Lucilia sericata.
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Antennal sensillum morphology and electrophysiological responses of olfactory receptor neurons in trichoid sensilla of the diamondback moth (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae)
Blow flies and flesh flies of genus Calliphora and Sarcophaga are frequently recorded as among the first insect to arrive on the carcass.
Characterization of forensically important necrophagus flies (Diptera) of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
The genus Calliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in Argentina, with the first records of C.
El genero Calliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae) en Argentina y primer registro de C. lopesi Mello 1962
Influence of food substrate tissue type on larval growth in Calliphora augur and Lucilia cuprina (Diptera: Caliphoridae).
Laboratory colonization of Lucilia sericata Meigen (Diptera: Caliphoridae) strain from Hashtgerd, Iran
Calliphora vicina (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830), Chloroprocta idioidea (Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830), C.
Effects of forest fragmentation on dipterofauna (Calliphoridae) at the Reserva Biologica do Tingua, Nova Iguacu, RJ/ Efeitos da fragmentacao florestal sobre a dipterofauna (Calliphoridae) na Reserva Biologica do Tingua, Nova Iguacu, RJ
Until the 5th instar the mantids were fed with live fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster); subsequently they were fed with live common houseflies (Musca domestica), Calliphora flies, and nymphal and adult house crickets (Acheta domesticus).
Relationship between body size and spatial vision in the praying mantis --an ontogenetic study
Flies from the United States and Dominica assayed for Coxiella burnetii, 2004-2007 Species Collection site and collector Calliphora vicina Elephant dung, Greenville Zoo, Greenville (Robineau-Desvoidy) County, SC, USA, by M.
Coxiella burnetii in wild-caught filth flies
The fine structure and mechanism of breakdown of larval intersegmental muscles in the blowfly Calliphora erythrocephala.
Responses of host hemocytes during the initiation of the squid-Vibrio symbiosis
Females were housed in individual plastic cups (400 ml) where they were watered [+ or -] days per week and fed about 3-4 Calliphora sp.
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The painting titled Homo sapiens, Lepidium sativum and Calliphora vomitoria - Latin for Human, Cress and Bluebottle - depicts him bare-chested and with a fly on his shoulder to show he is mortal like the rest of us.
Homo sapiens, Lepidium sativum & Calliphora vomitoria; ALSO KNOWN AS PRINCE PHILIP'S NEW PORTRAIT

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