Great swarms of bluebottle flies buzzed lazily in the warm sunshine.
The bluebottles buzzed about the wall, and a little old mouse picked over the rubbish among the jam pots.
The office was very still, except for two bluebottle flies butting against the ceiling and buzzing up and down the window-panes.
There was one big bluebottle that had got stuck there on his back with his wings in the sticky stuff.
This fly is very like our British bluebottle, with a somewhat greener head, and a body entirely yellow.
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Some seem simply to appear, rather like bluebottles in the spring, when the sun comes out.
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We call them bluebottles, because they have always sat on the top of the meat vans.
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I should think there is no place more likely than a lairage to produce large quantities ofbluebottleflies.
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From an institutional point of view, what we are now doing has no greater value, metaphorically speaking, than abluebottlestopping off on a dung heap.
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The most distasteful items were mole andbluebottle; panther, crocodile and mouse were among the other dishes noted by guests.
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Bluebottlefly adults feed on nectar, while the larvae feed on carcasses of dead animals.
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Many competitors make this task difficult, e.g. bluebottles and ants or burying beetles of either another or the same species.
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Observed prey include largely plant lice, but also large insects such asbluebottleflies.
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Bluebottleis also prone to humorous misnaming of characters, including himself.
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Bluebottleis written in by the author to help them.
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