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Bob_71 Severna Park, MD(Zone 7a) Dec 29, 2010

I have several shots of green flies that are quite similar in size and shape but vary quite a bit in the intensity of the green coloring.

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Dec 29, 2010

This is a blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae); there are species in two genera (Lucilla and Phormia) that can be very similar in appearance - see http://tinyurl.com/2ekbe7b for some examples. Blow flies usually are the first insects to arrive at the corpse of a recently deceased animal.

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