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The Blowflies are members of the family Calliphoridae of flies (Diptera). Flies in this family are often shiny/metallic in appearance.

Some members of this family are known as bluebottles, cluster flies or greenbottles. The name blowfly comes from the fact that meatMeat is animal flesh (mainly muscle tissue) used as food, sometimes with the exception of fish, other seafood, and poultry. Originally, the word meat meant simply "food". It is also used as a vulgar way to refer to the human body. see meat market. For the infested by their larvaeLarvae are the plural of larva, juvenile form of animals with indirect development. See larva In Roman mythology, the Larvae were the spectres or spirits of the dead; they were the malignant version of the Lares. Some Roman writers describe Lemures as the becomes " flyblown ".

The family is divided into two subfamilies, the Calliphorinae and the Chrysomyiinae , which between them contain about 23 genera.

Adult blowflies are occasional pollinatorA pollinator is the agent that moves pollen from the male anthers of a flower to the female stigma of a flower to accomplish fertilization or syngamy of the female gamete in the ovule of the flower by the male gamete from the pollen grain. Though the terms, being attracted to flowerA flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms ( flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). The function of a flower is to produce seeds through sexual reproduction''. For the higher plants, seeds are the next generation, ands with a strong odorOdor receptors on the antennaeof a Luna moth An odor is the object of perception of the sense of olfaction. Odors are also called smells . The terms stench or taste is used to describe an unpleasant odor. The term fragrance is used by the homegoods indust resembling rottingDecomposition is the reduction of bodies and other formerly living organisms into simpler forms of matter; and most particularly to the fate of the body, after death. The science which studies decomposition generally is called taphonomy''. The rate and th meat, such as the American pawpaw.