greenbottle

Blue colors are common in tarantulas, such as this greenbottle blue tarantula.

Bluebottles, greenbottles, and all the flies of metallic luster were gathered at the Lucullan feast of corruption.

In Britain, they include the common bluebottle and greenbottle, and they are the forensic entomologist's raw material.

We will therefore confine ourselves to the two principal subjects, namely, the Luciliae, or greenbottles, and the Sarcophagae, or grey flesh flies.

The greenbottles, I was saying, break up their laying into sections.