Lucilia caesar arrives when they perceive the cadaveric odor, when putrefaction settles in the gaseous phase.
Both the thorax and abdomen of Lucilia caesar have a very bright metallic green color.
Females lay several hundreds of eggs that develop very fast, because in good conditions they can hatch in only 18 hours.
Lucilia sericata is a fly of necrophagous feeding habits, and one of the predominant species in the cadaveric fauna, is commonly called a greenbottle because all the flies in this genus are a metallic green color. Lucilia species are distinguished from other blowflies by having a ridge just above the squama, the rear wing, which has tufts of hair on it.
