He said the seven-day collection timetable, introduced in the 1930s, was brought in because the life cycle of the bluebottle was ten days. |
He noticed several bluebottle flies gathering in a panel at the side of the bath. |
It sits, not quite dead, but buzzing like a bluebottle under a pint glass, its battery acid eating away the carpet. |
Freedom is not sitting on the top of a tree, freedom is not the flight of a bluebottle, freedom is participating. |
The house-fly and the bluebottle fly also belong to the order of the Diptera. |
To the others in the car she could have been following a circling bluebottle. |