Green Bottle Fly

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Insects

Green Bottle Fly
(Phaenicia sericata)

Green Bottle Flies lay their eggs almost exclusively in dead or rotting flesh or meat. These flys can pick up on organic odors of decomposition with in minutes of death. They are one of the first insects to be attracted to fresh carcass.

Green Bottle Fly

This cat food was put outside at about 9:00am to feed some farm cats. Most of the food was eaten. However at about 1:00pm the left over bowls had a mess of Green Bottle Flies all over them. Upon inspecting the bowls fly eggs were found in the bowls.

Fly eggs laid on some left over can cat food that was left outside for only 4 hours.

Fly eggs laid in cat food, in a 4 hour period

Up close the eggs look like chicken rice, to the naked eye it looks almost like part of the cat food

Up close the eggs look like chicken rice, to the naked eye it looks almost like part of the cat food.

Have you ever been at a picnic where the food was left out for half of the day? Were there any Flies in the area?? Hhhmmmm, better think twice about eating uncovered food

Have you ever been at a picnic where the food was left out for half of the day? Were there any Flies in the area?? Hhhmmmm, better think twice about eating uncovered food.

Fly eggs up close