One tired fly!

Today it was very warm and also quite humid. This fly was found resting and exhausted on the underneath side of a plant stalk. Normally he would have buzzed off the moment he saw someone coming up close. Having said that I was very pleased he stayed put, as I have not done a macro for some time.

This little beauty is a blue bodied blowfly (Calliphora (Paracalliphora) augur), one of Australia's finest flies, and it is the speedster of the fly world being one of the earliest flies to visit a corpse. Their larvae breed in carrion and live in wounds of sheep causing myiasis (sheep who have been fly-blown).

They are also known as the Australian Sheep Blowfly. Being that there are no sheep anywhere near here, he was either very lost or very hungry.

The blue bodied blowfly, also known as the lesser brown, is a species of blow-fly that is native to Australia. It lays living maggots, unlike most blow-fly species which lay eggs.

This blip caught him from underneath while he was napping. Yes I know that some people hate flies, but you can't please everybody.
He looks even more gruesome in LARGE! Check out the mouth parts!