bush fly

plural bush flies

1. AustraliaA blow fly of the family Calliphoridae.First known use 19th c.

   Even so, the small black bush fly still knows how to make its presence felt.

   2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 136

   2 more examples

   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.

   1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 77

   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.

   1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 57