greenbottle
Britishnoun
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In Britain, they include the common bluebottle and greenbottle, and they are the forensic entomologist's raw material.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 23, 2010
“None of them were greenbottle flies—only some of his cousins. People make mistakes. The flies know that. That’s how the greenbottle fly first came around anyway. To help the people who had made some mistakes.”
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
On the top of this, I place a few slabs of greenbottle eggs collected a moment ago from the snake in my earthen pan.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The first question that presents itself is this: how do the greenbottle grubs feed?
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
I have left at the bottom of a glass the best part of a hard-boiled egg from which I have taken a few bits of white intended for the greenbottle maggots.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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