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- Piophila is a genus of small flies which includes the species known as the cheese fly. Both Piophila species feed on carrion, including human corpses....
- The cheese fly, cheese skipper, or ham skipper (Piophila casei) is a species of fly from the family Piophilidae whose larvae are known to infest cured...
- outside with part of the rind removed to allow the eggs of the cheese fly Piophila casei to be laid in the cheese. A female P. casei can lay more than 500...
- food source. The most notorious member of the family is the cheese fly, Piophila casei; it is cosmopolitan, and a typical member of the family. It is a...
- cheese that contains live maggots as well as cheese mites. Cheese fly, Piophila casei The Cheese Mites, a 1903 do****entary film "Mimolette Cheese". Cheese...
- cheese casu marzu is exposed to flies known as cheese skippers such as Piophila casei, members of the family Piophilidae. The digestive activities of the...
- swallowing eggs or larvae that are on food.[citation needed] The cheese fly (Piophila casei) sometimes causes myiasis through intentional consumption of its...
- 1803) Synonyms Musca spondylii Schrank, 1803 Pandora basalis Haliday, 1833 Piophila scutellaris Fallén, 1820 Saltella basalis (Haliday, 1833) Saltella flavipes...
- brought about by the digestive action of the larvae of the cheese fly Piophila casei. These larvae are deliberately introduced to the cheese. The cheese...
- also discovered Necator americ**** in Italy and also examined the fly Piophila casei. He was invited to Argentina to attend the Malaria Congress in Buenos...