bush fly
noun1
Australia A blow fly of the family Calliphoridae.
- The song that lay along the line of hills told of a Dreamtime Ancestor who failed to perform the correct ritual for controlling a bush-fly breeding cycle.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 77:
- So fine and unusual is this stretch of weather that the ever-present bush flies and their dull cousins, the fat black march flies, have declared some sort of national holiday and gone to ground.1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 57
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- Even so, the small black bush fly still knows how to make its presence felt.2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 136: