Abstract

Previously, the Marsh greenbottle blowfly, Lucilia silvarum Meigen (Diptera: Calliphoridae), has been implicated in myiasis of anurans but not of mammals or birds. This report describes an incident of opportunistic myiasis of nestling common blackbirds, Turdus merula (Passeriformes: Turdidae), by L. silvarum larvae in association with an infestation by the hematophagous maggot Neottiophilum praeustum (Diptera: Piophilidae).

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