[
UK
/blˈəʊflaɪ/
]
NOUN
- large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
How To Use blowfly In A Sentence
- None of the wounds developed an infection or became infested by blowfly.
- These tiny wasps are important biological control agents of nuisance flies, such as the house fly and blowfly.
- A European blowfly, yet another life-form introduced to New Zealand, proved to be as harmful as the weasels.
- Mulesing involves cutting off the skin around the buttocks of merino lambs, often without anaesthetic, to prevent "flystrike", the infestation of blowfly maggots, which thrive in the folds of the sheep and eat into its flesh. Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk
- It is embellished with thousands of black-and-white scraperboard illustrations so superbly detailed that you can count every hair on a blowfly's bum.
- A blowfly crawled across one of his flared sideburns. Rain Gods
- He was dozing gently in the autumn sunshine when a late blowfly droned past, rousing him for his soporific state.
- It sounds to me like a blowfly buzzing around in a chandelier.
- The bovine scatology from the dems on lowering deficit, saving medicare, and lowering health care costs would make a blowfly wince. Nelson launches TV ad defending vote
- And lest I forget, the worst of all pests: the Australian blowfly, an invasive introduced species. Late, Late at Night