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green bottle fly

alt. (context insects English) Flies in the genera ''Lucilia'' and (taxlink Phaenicia genus noshow=1). n. (context insects English) Flies in the genera ''Lucilia'' and (taxlink Phaenicia genus noshow=1).

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Green bottle fly

The name green bottle fly or greenbottle fly is applied to numerous species of Calliphoridae or blow fly, in the genera Lucilia and Phaenicia (the latter is sometimes considered a subgenus of the former).

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I once witnessed an experiment in which the head of a green bottle fly was connected by a very thin wire to an oscilloscope that displayed, in a kind of graph, any electrical impulses produced by the fly's olfactory system.