Blowfly News

 
Vet warns sheep farmers to be prepared for blowfly threat as weather ...
CisionWire (press release)
23 May 2012 – Sheep farmers have been told to be prepared to deal with the threat of blowfly strike as the weather warms up. Wendy Phillips, a vet with the Arrowfield Veterinary Group, in Herefordshire, said both ewes and lambs will be at risk, ...


 
Time of death explored in Guelph murder trial
Guelph Mercury
University of Windsor forensic entomologist Sherah VanLaerhoven testified that eggs and maggots from four types of blowflies gathered from the body of 29-year-old Corrine Burns allowed her to estimate the time of Burns' death.


 
Mapping the genomes of crocodiles and alligators -- It's not for the faint of ...
Phys.Org
Those experts have long used blowfly eggs and larvae to help determine time of death, but a lot of fly species and their young look alike. "It's critical that you actually know which species you're dealing with or you're going to get the time of death ...

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The Age
A eulogy of sound to a missed talent
The Age
Abbe May, the West Australian blues and rock singer whose torch song-like treatment of Blowfly opens the album, is a fan of Younan's ''very dramatic and passionate style of writing which is refreshing in an unhinged kind of way''. She is not alone, ...

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Baa Baas take the Cup at thrilling Pattaya Rugby Festival
Pattaya Mail
As usual Tournament Director Malcolm “The Root of all Evil” Clare with his dour assistant Wayne “Blowfly” Oganoski had spent weeks organizing the groups and programming the many spreadsheets to cover every possible outcome.

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ZDNet (blog)
Samsung announces Galaxy S III with a focus on natural interaction
ZDNet (blog)
... and now it is out there, we can finally bury this silly discussion, as there are several non-iOS devices with such hi-res displays, and ignore those that are never going to buy the device but just want to be a blog blowfly (Mortein handy anyone?).

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The Earth Times
Saith the Fly to the Spider
The Earth Times
Blowflies (Calliphora) were used in a series of experiments by Christian Klopsch, Hendrik C. Kuhlmann, and Friedrich G. Barth in which they supplied air-flow patterns to test the spider's incredible sensory apparatus.