Bird Blow Fly- About Terry Whitworth

Curriculum Vittae

BS, education/zoology, Truman State University
(formerly N.E. Missouri State University), 1968; MS, entomology, Utah State University, 1971; PhD, entomology, Utah State University, 1975

Owner and Operator, Whitworth Pest Solutions, Inc., January 1981 to present

Washington State University Adjunct Professor in Entomology since 2006.

Blow Fly Publications

Baudry, E., J. Bartos, K. Emerson, T. Whitworth, and J. H. Warren. 2003. Wolbachia on genetic variability in the birdnest blowfly, Protocalliphora sialia. Molecular Ecology 12: 1843 to 1854.

Bennett, G.F., and T.L. Whitworth, 1992. Host, nest, and ecological relationships of species of Protocalliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Can J. Zool 70: 51-61

Bennett, G.F., and T.L. Whitworth, 1991. Studies on the life history of some species of Protocalliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Can J. Zool 69: 2048-2058.

Dawson, D.D., T.L. Whitworth, and G.R. Bortolotti, 1999. Bird blowflies, Protocalliphora (Diptera Calliphoridae), in cavity nests of birds in the Boreal forest of Saskatchewan. The Canadian Field - Naturalist, 113: 503-506.

Dawson, D.D., K.K. Hillen, and T.L. Whitworth 2005. Effects of Experimental Variation in Temperature on Larval Densities of Parasitic Protocalliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in Nests of Tree Swallows (Passeriformes: Hirundinidae). Environmental Entomology 34(3): 563-568.

Gentes, Marie-line; T.L. Whitworth; C. Waldner; H. Fenton; J. Smits. 2007. Trees Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) nesting on wetlands impacted by oil sands mining are highly parasitized by the bird blow fly Protocalliphora spp. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 43(2): 167-178.

Kozlov, M. V. and Terry Whitworth. 2002. Populations densities and diversity of Calliphoridae (Diptera) around a nickle-copper smelter at Monchegorsk, northwest Russia Entomologica Fennica, 13: 98-104.

Revels, M. R. and T.L.Whitworth. 2005. First record of Swainson's Warbler Parasitism by Protocalliphora blow fly larvae. 17:199-200.

Sabrosky, C.W., G.F. Bennett, and T.L. Whitworth, 1989. Bird blow flies (Protocalliphora) in North America (Diptera: Calliphoridae), with notes on Palearctic species. Smithsonian Institution Press, Wash. D.C. 312P.

Whitworth, Terry L. 1971. A Study of the biology of the species of Protocalliphora in the northern Wasatch Range. Utah State University, Logan, Utah, unpub. M.S. thesis, 58 pp.

Whitworth, Terry L. 1976. Host and habitat preferences, life history, pathogenicity and population regulation in species of Protocalliphora Hough (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Utah State University, Logan, Utah, unpub. PhD. Dissertation pp. xii + 144. Available Dissertation Abstracts International, B 37 (10): 4933-B, 1977.

Whitworth, T.L., 2001. The bluebird monitors guide, pp. 85-88. ed., Cynthia Berger, Keith Kridler, and Jack Griggs, Harper Collins Books, 128P.

Whitworth T.L., 2002a. Two new species of North America Protocalliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae) from bird nests. Proceedings Entomological Society of Washington, 104(3), pp. 801-811.

Whitworth, T. L. 2002b. New Species Found in wren nest. Autumn Birdscope, Cornell University.

Whitworth, Terry L. 2003a. A new species of North American Protocalliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae) from bird nests. Proceedings Entomological Society of Washington, 105(3), pp. 664-673.

Whitworth Terry L. 2003b. A key to the puparia of 27 species of North American Protocalliphora Hough (Diptera: Calliphoridae) from bird nests and two new puparial descriptions. Proceedings Entomological Society of Washington, 105(4), pp. 995-1033.

Whitworth Terry L. 2006. Keys to the genera and species of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphordae) of America north of Mexico. Proceedings Entomological Society of Washington 108(3): pp.689-725. Click here for Spanish language version.
Tips For Using The Keys More Effectively And Errata
Tips For Using The Keys More Effectively And Errata (Spanish language version)

Whitworth T.L., and G.F. Bennett, 1992. Pathogenicity of larval Protocalliphora (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Parasitizing nestling birds. Can J. Zool 70: 2184-2191.

Whitworth, T.L., R.D. Dawson, H. Magalon, and E. Baudry. 2007. DNA barcoding cannot reliably identify species of the blowfly genus Protocalliphora (Diptera:Calliphoridae). Proc. R. Soc. B 274: 1731-1739..