The eggs of a bluebottle fly, if placed in the sun, will hatch in two or three hours. Linnaeus declares that th© larvm of three bluebottle flies will devour the carcase of a horse as quickly as would a lion, so rapidly do these insects increase and so JLranuamu dottier beoomev
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7422, 7 June 1902, Page 3
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