Flies Could Falsely Place Someone at a Crime Scene

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Flies Could Falsely Place Someone at a Crime Scene

Published February 22, 2016

This might be the grossest science experiment I’ve ever written about—which is really saying something on a blog called Gory Details—but it’s also one of the most fascinating. It has to do with the taste a certain type of fly has for human bodily fluids.

Blowflies, in case you’re not familiar with them, are the flies of death…