Blow Fly Facts
- The blow fly prefers temperate to tropical areas.
- Blow flies are often shiny with metallic-like blue, green or black bodies and are slightly larger than a housefly.
- They have the ability to smell dead animal matter as far as a mile away.
Also spelled blow-flies, the Calliphoridae family includes carrion flies, cluster flies, greenbottle and bluebottle flies, in the Diptera order of insects.