Oriental Latrine Fly |
Chrysomya megacephala |
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This fly is alighted on foliage of Solanum incanum on the Chepkoilel Campus in Eldoret, Kenya, October 2010. Identification offered by @lacerdajulio and @waswala. |
As much as people can complain about flies zipping about a restaurant dining room or as a writhing mass of maggots emerging from a carcass, everyone ought to marvel at the fly in its perfection of beauty, economy and functional design. Indeed as blowflies help remove putrid remains of dead creatures they leave our world more tidy as they flaunt their accomplishments in the sunshine.
From Wikipedia: Calliphoridae -- Blow Fly FamilyMore Information: |
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Michael J. Plagens. Page created 16 Dec. 2010,
updated 12 Sept. 2017.