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A female lesser brown blowfly (Calliphora augur), also known as the bluebodied blowfly. This species of blowfly is native to Australia. It is a common visitor to houses and is also noted as a perpetrator of flystrike on sheep. It lays living maggots unlike most blowfly species which lay eggs.Photo credit: Fir0002