I'm an Entomology PhD student studying phylogenomics and parasitism in Calyptrate flies, with blow flies and bot flies very dear to my heart. I am most familiar with the systematics, trophic specializations, and forensic/ecological roles of blow flies.

For species-level blow fly identifications and corrections, I usually leave the characters I used to determine in a comment (especially if it's an uncommon species, typically not if I'm moving species ID back to genus). If you have better information, please send me a message and I will greatly appreciate it. In general, the most helpful features for the majority of blow fly identifications to species are the face, dorsum, and the base of the wing. Information on where it was collected and what it was doing is always helpful as well; I'm very interested in using ecological traits to aid in identification.

For other identifications, I try my best with a search of the relevant clade native to the observation's region and use sight ID, relative abundance, and available diagnostic characters to identify, but I am absolutely a beginner and greatly appreciate corrections. I also occasionally put unknown observations to order or family so it'll get to the right people faster. Thank you so much to all the experts here for your help.

I have an inordinate fondness for flies – please feel free to tag me :-)

Typical North Carolina blow flies:
Most frequently seen species in bold
Chrysomyinae – Cochliomyia macellaria, Phormia regina, Chrysomya megacephala and C. rufifacies, maybe Protophormia terraenovae
Luciliinae – Lucilia coeruleiviridis, L. sericata, L. cuprina, L. illustris, L. cluvia, L. silvarum (L. sericata and L. cuprina are highly synanthropic and more likely to be photographed)
Calliphorinae – Calliphora vicina, Calliphora vomitoria, Calliphora latifrons, Cynomya cadaverina, Calliphora terraenovae, Calliphora livida, Calliphora stelviana, Calliphora aldrichia, Cyanus elongatus
Rhinophorinae – Stevenia sp., Melanophora sp., maybe Phyto sp.
Note that there are ~2,000 species of blow flies, many distributed worldwide. As I learn more morphology and identification, I would like to try to get rarer species catalogued here. If you have a fly that looks like a blow fly... but it also kinda looks like a muscid or a tachinid... please tag me!

Favorites:
–all blow flies, esp. Protocalliphora sp., Lucilia sp., Cochliomyia sp. Blepharicnema splendens, Bengaliinae
–all bot flies, esp. Cuterebrinae and the Cuterebra buccata and C. princeps groups
–parasitic and predatory insects, esp. Mantodea and parasitic Hymenoptera... esp. esp. really weird parasites
–Diptera, esp. Oestroidea, Asilidae, Diogmites sp., Rhagionidae, Dolichopodidae, Condylostylus sp.; mostly Brachycera but also Blephariceridae, Psychodidae, Ptychopteridae
–Hymenoptera, esp. Pompilidae, Sphecidae, Xylocopa sp., Philanthus sp.
–Neuroptera, esp. Ascalaphidae and Myrmeleontidae
–outside of Insecta, I adore raptors (esp. Osprey, falcons, and vultures), Flycatchers and Kingfishers, wild cats (esp. Servals and small African cats), coyotes and jackals, and weird little mammals like Genets
–outside of extant animals... I adore Epicyon sp., Miracinonyx, Megaloceros, microraptors, and Archaeopteryx

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