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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Flies
  6. Calyptrate Flies
  7. Bot Flies, Blow Flies, and Allies

superfamily

Bot Flies, Blow Flies, and Allies

Oestroidea

Includes
165 native 15 introduced 45 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Bristle Flies 109 native
  • Bot Flies 21 native
  • Ngaro Iro 20 native
  • Flesh Flies and Satellite Flies 12 native
  • Polleniidae 2 native
  • Woodlouse Flies 1 native
  • Mesembrinellidae

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native bot flies, blow flies, and allies All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Hornworm Tachinid Fly Archytas apicifer 7,473 observations
  • Shiny Blue Bottle Fly Cynomya cadaverina 5,033 observations
  • Orange-bearded Bluebottle Fly Calliphora vomitoria 3,049 observations
  • Secondary Screwworm Fly Cochliomyia macellaria 2,904 observations
  • Adejeania vexatrix 2,519 observations
  • Spiny Tachina Fly Paradejeania rutilioides 1,341 observations
  • Cuterebra latifrons 49 observations
  • Dyscritomyia fasciata 2 observations

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