Well, almost all people find Blowfly a really yucky creature. Blowflies are among the most hated and most avoided creatures on Earth due to their nasty nature and the diseases they transmit to humans.
People may regard them unlikable creatures but they are useful somehow one way or the other. There are 1,100 known species of Blowflies most of them can be found in Africa and Southern Europe. Countries with the most species of Blowflies are India, Japan, Southern United States and Central America.
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Blowflies are known for their importance in science particularly in forensic science. The oldest known records of forensic entomology was published by Song Ci in 1247 CE in his Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified during the Song Dynasty that reigned from 960 – 1279 CE.
In a certain case of murder in 1235 in a certain village in China, a person was stabbed to death and authorities determined that his wounds were inflicted by a sickle, a tool for cutting rice, a fact which led the authority to suspect that a fellow peasant worker was the murderer.
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In order to resolve the case, the local magistrate called on all the villagers to assemble in the town’s square and were ordered to relinquish their sickles. After a few minutes, a cluster of Blowflies gathered around one sickle and none other, attracted to the scent of traces of blood unseen by the naked eye. Obviously, the owner of the sickle was the murderer. The case is solved and the culprit was put to jail.
Aside from solving murder cases, Blowflies are also important in the medical world. Blowflies are also commonly known as Carrion Flies, Bluebottles, Greenbottles or Cluster Flies.
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Some Blowfly species are of great medicinal value. Blowflies’ medical importance is in the so-called Maggot Debridement Therapy or MDT. MTD is the medical use of selected, tested and disinfected fly larvae, including Blowfly maggots, for cleaning non-healing wounds. This therapy is useful in treating diabetic foot wounds, pressure ulcers, post surgical wounds and venous stasis ulcers.
The Common Green Bottle Fly or Lucilia Sericata is the preferred species used in maggot therapy. The medicinal maggots’ three most important jobs include:
* cleaning out wounds by eating away the dead, infected tissue,
* killing off the bacteria
* stimulating wound healing.
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