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Bird Blow Flies (Protocalliphora) In North America (Diptera: Calliphoridae): With Notes On The Palearctic Species
Author: Sabrosky, Curtis W.; Joint Author: Whitworth, Terry L.
Hardback; Book 312 pages Published: June 1990 Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)
ISBN: 0874748658
The authors discuss by species such topics as distribution, life history, host relations, and ecology, parasites, collecting, rearing, preservation, and control.The Calliphoridae are a widespread family of flies whose larvae are obligator bloodsucking parasites of nestling birds. This study describes the N.A. representatives of the blow fly genus Protocalliphora and recognizes 26 N. species, including 15 newly described. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright B

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