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Decomposition: Blowflies - Family Calliphoridae (436 words) |
 | Blowflies often are an attractive blue-green, metallic colour, leading to the common English names, blue-bottles and green-bottles - and the common Australian name, blue-arsed flies. |
| Blowflies can pick up faint traces of the odour of decay and can fly up to 20 km from their birth-place in search of a suitable corpse in which to lay their eggs. |
| Female blowflies will often use their tongue-like mouthparts to feed on the protein secretions oozing from a corpse, prior to laying their eggs through their pointy ovipositor. |
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Blowflies are eating into the profits | Australian Wool Innovation Limited (555 words) |
| Blowflies are eating into the profits of woolgrowers, and anything that helps get on top of the parasite is welcome. |
| Mr Fisken and his farm apprentice are the only labour on the property so they have an acute understanding of the extra work and costs associated with managing blowfly strike. |
| Sheep blowflies are estimated to cost woolgrowers more than $280 million a year in lost production and control costs. |
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