Blue Bottle Fly

Blue Bottle Fly in Shrewsbury, Vermont

Blue bottle fly (Calliphora vomitoria) adults feed on nectar, while the larvae feed on carcasses of dead animals. Adults are also pollinators to some flowers with strong odor. These insects like to fly in packs in order to detect possible prey more efficiently. If one fly detects food, it will disperse a pheromone which will alert the others to the meal.