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Lucilia Cerakata, a Common Green Blowing Fly
There's probably over 150,000 fly species and we use a single one. We can consistently then control how often they're going through their generations and their life cycles. The ones we keep in here are pretty clean and it's a closed colony so we don't introduce any wild flies to this colony. So the older ones are going to smell a little bit differently just because they've had their protein,. They're going to excrete things and poop all over the cages. That always sounds like it's raining. On a thoroughly miserable day in South Wales. I'm actually a little bit jealous. Oh yeah, we'll go in there in a bit. We'll get to feel how warm
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