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A female
Oriental latrine fly
(
Chrysomya megacephala
) feeding on
feces
. This
blow-fly
species is
coprophagous
and
necrophagous
and is found throughout the world. They are considered one of the most important species of fly to
forensic entomology
because they are one of the earliest to arrive on a
corpse
.
Photo credit:
Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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