Carrion fly

This article covers the ecological group of scavengers; for the species of fly with this common name, see gray meat fly .

Carrion flies are insects whose females often lay their eggs on cadavers . The larvae feed on after hatching from the in decay merges meat. This is not a category of systematic biology, but, as is the case with carnivores , an ecological summary. The carrion flies include above all the blow and meat flies from the order of the two-winged flies .

literature

• Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm: The insect first part. Printed at the publisher's expense, Vienna 1810.

See also

• Carrion flowers
• scavenger

Web links

Wiktionary: carrion fly  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Gray Flesh Fly - Carrion Fly (accessed October 19, 2015)