#calliphoridae

[razehider]

it's always convenient when a camouflaged crab spider catches the most conspicuous prey imaginable to help you notice what you normally wouldn't. the sneaky beast in question that caught this unsneaky Lucilia is, most likely, an undescribed misumenine i've talked about before

(June 25, 2025)

[bowelfly]

i saw this guy eat five 7-11 roller hot dogs and a jumbo sour apple slurpee without taking the cig out of his mouth once

[snototter]

A common greenbottle fly (Lucilia sericata) inside a cultivated carrion flower (Stapelia gigantea) in Georgia, USA

by Alan Cressler

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: MARCH 2ND, 2026 | Image IDs: Four photos of a grey blow fly with brownish eyes feeding from and pollinating the white, green, and yellow flowers of a plum tree /End IDs.]

[miyrumiyru]

Butts, flying butts everywhere

[faguscarolinensis]

Lucilia coeruleiviridis on Asclepias perennis / Blue-Green Bottle Fly on Aquatic Milkweed at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[onenicebugperday]

Copper-tailed blowfly, Chrysomya chloropyga, Calliphoridae

Found in southern Africa. Larvae feed primarily on carrion or dung while adults are nectar feeders and important pollinators.

Photos 1-2 by johanheyns, 3 by cecileroux, and 4-6 by alandmanson

[drhoz]

#3523 - Amenia nigromaculata

One of the Snail-parasite Blowflies. They give birth to large well-developed maggots, which immeadiately get to work eating snails alive.

Don Shepherd Reserve, Baldivis.