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The Response of Blowfly Larvae to Light.
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BIOLOGY INVESTIGATION: THE RESPONSE OF BLOWFLY LARVAE TO LIGHT Background Information This section contains general information about blowflies relevant to this investigation, leading to the reasoning of a prediction in the next section. Blowflies Blowflies are large-eyed flies, e.g. bluebottles Calliphora spp. and greenbottle Lucilia sericata. They lay their eggs in decaying meat and other foodstuffs, or in the case of greenbottle and L. cuprina (shown in Figure 5 on Page 13) in living sheep! The lifecycle of the fly that I will be using for my experiments (bluebottles) is shown in Figure 1. The numbers on the inside indicate the approximate days elapsing. Bluebottle is a name given to two similar species of true flies, Calliphora erythrocephala and C. vomitora. They have a four-stage life (metamorphosis) cycle, consisting of an egg stage, hatching into a larval stage, which metamorphoses into the pupa, from which the adult (imago) eventually hatches. Each female bluebottle fly...
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