Identifying a punk fly...

[Anton Marais]

Patrick Bernard wrote:
>
> I just killed a fly I had never seen before.
> It's like the common house fly (size and shape), but its color is very
> unusual:\.
> It has a blue/green thorax and a red/pink abdomen on top, it's blue/green
> underneath.
> I live by an egg farm and I'm used to see black flies not punk ones!
> Can you identify it for me.
> Thanks.

Hi Patrick

I think you saw a blowfly.
I took the liberty of searching the web for a picture and found one at:
http://wwwfml.mpib-tuebingen.mpg.de/borst/fly/
Hope this is what you were looking for!

Regards
Anton (antonm at wpk.co.za)