This fly adheres to a particular environment and ecosystem that has limited geographic distributions in North America.

Undisturbed, this environment fosters C. latifrons unique life cycle that somewhat differs from related blow flies.

This life cycle can be utilized as a tool for forensic applications such as postmortem interval determination.

The eggs, which are yellowish or white in color, are deposited by the female into mostly moist, solid organic matter and are approximately 0.04 in long.

In February 2004, there was a case involving a dumped body in a rural area of San Jose, California.

C. latifrons was found on a decaying corpse and helped investigators confirm how long the body had been there.

C. latifrons is part of a group of carrion feeding flies in the western U.S. in which very little information exists.