bush fly
English
editNoun
editbush fly (plural bush flies)
- (Australia) A blow fly of the family Calliphoridae. [from 19th c.]
- 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 77:
- 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.
- 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 57:
- 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.
- 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 136:
- Even so, the small black bush fly still knows how to make its presence felt.