Common Green Bottle Fly ( Lucilia sericata )

We were sitting down in Clickychick's "woodland garden" when I spotted the GreenBottle.  It must be the right habitat for them as we only see them in that part of the garden.   Fortunately, it stayed on one of the evergreen fern's fronds long enough for me to get a halfway decent shot.

Common Green Bottles are found very widely distributed including in Europe, Africa, and Australia.  They are a blowfly laying their eggs directly on to carrion.  The adults eat both carrion and plant material in the form of pollen and nectar.  This makes them a very important pollinator.