bush fly

bush fly (plural bush flies)

1. (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.