2014 $1 Bright Bug Blow Fly Coloured Uncirculated Coin

The Australian Sheep Blow Fly, Lucilia Cuprina, can feed and reproduce on living flesh, and often infests open sores on sheep, which can cost the agricultural industry millions of dollars every year. Not all blow flies cause such problems. Specially-bred sterile maggots are used medically for healing some kinds of wounds. Maggots can also be helpful to forensic investigators when determining the time of death of a person, because scientists know how quickly they infest a dead body and how fast they grow!