How to Use blowfly in a Sentence

blowfly

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• Screwworms are a type of blue-gray blowfly and look very similar to black flies found in the United States.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 25 Aug. 2025
• In Texas, ranchers are bracing for an onslaught of screwworms, the flesh-eating maggots of blowflies.
  — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
• The new species is Lucilia cuprina, or Australian sheep blowfly.
  — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 17 June 2026
• Miller proposed using the same facilities that are producing sterile male flies to produce fertile blowflies to replenish that population if their numbers dwindle as a result of the traps.
  — Alice Park, Time, 2 July 2026
• The screwworm—technically New World screwworm or Cochliomyia hominivorax (Coquerel)—is a parasitic blowfly.
  — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026