A fly that breeds in carrion, typically producing live young which are deposited on a carcass.
麻蝇，肉蝇
Family Sarcophagidae: Sarcophaga and other genera
Example sentencesExamples
A similar lack of cycling has been reported in the adult head of the flesh fly.
What was decomposing the carcasses, given the total absence of fossils of the larger flies, such as flesh flies and blowflies (whose larvae, which we call maggots, feed on carrion)?
One day you'll cast to 50-pound king salmon fresh from the Bering Sea; the next you'll throw flesh flies to the ten-pound rainbows that follow the migration and feed on dead spawners.
The presence of dung beetles or flesh flies in the inflorescence can most easily be explained by their attraction to the heat produced by the plant, not its odor.
This dung or carrion mimicry attracts flesh flies, rove beetles, and even mosquitoes, all of which have been observed with pollen on them.
Definition of flesh fly in US English:
flesh fly
noun
A fly that breeds in carrion, typically producing live young which are deposited on a carcass.
麻蝇，肉蝇
Family Sarcophagidae: Sarcophaga and other genera
Example sentencesExamples
One day you'll cast to 50-pound king salmon fresh from the Bering Sea; the next you'll throw flesh flies to the ten-pound rainbows that follow the migration and feed on dead spawners.
A similar lack of cycling has been reported in the adult head of the flesh fly.
What was decomposing the carcasses, given the total absence of fossils of the larger flies, such as flesh flies and blowflies (whose larvae, which we call maggots, feed on carrion)?
The presence of dung beetles or flesh flies in the inflorescence can most easily be explained by their attraction to the heat produced by the plant, not its odor.
This dung or carrion mimicry attracts flesh flies, rove beetles, and even mosquitoes, all of which have been observed with pollen on them.