Editing Calliphoridae (section)

===Predators===
Predators of blowflies include spiders,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Welch|first1=John B.|title=Predation by Spiders on Ground-Released Screwworm Flies, Cochliomyia hominivorax (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in a Mountainous Area of Southern Mexico|journal=Journal of Arachnology|publisher=American Arachnological Society|location=Ithaca, New York|date=1993|volume=21|issue=1|pages=23–28|jstor=3705375}}</ref> beetles, frogs, and birds, including chickens.

In the Chihuahuan desert of Mexico, a fungus, ''[[Furia (fungus)|Furia vomitoriae]]'' {{Au|(Rozsypal) Humber (1989)}} (from the family of [[Entomophthoraceae]]) affects bluebottle flies. It forms masses of [[conidiophores]] erupting through the intersegmental areas (or clear bands) on the abdominal dorsum of the flies and eventually kills them.<ref name=Sanchez>{{cite journal |last1=Sanchez-Pena |first1=Sergio R. |title=Entomopathogens from two Chihuahuan desert localities in Mexico, Projects: Fall armyworm, ''Spodoptera frugiperda'', in north-eastern Mexico |journal=BioControl |date=April 2000 |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=63–78 |doi=10.1023/A:1009915308907|s2cid=6876392 }}</ref>