Though this species is rare, it can play an important part in forensic entomology, spreading disease, and decomposing carrion.

The adults have sponge-like mouth parts in which they will first coat their food with digestive enzymes and then suck up the matter.

C. loewi is widespread in Fennoscandia and Denmark and can be found limited in numbers in other parts of northern and central Europe.

[3] When the third-instar larva has finished growing (12–18 mm), it leaves the corpse and burrows into the ground where it develops into a hardened, capsule-like pupa.

The brown/black pupa retains a maggot like appearance with outlines of its spiracles and skin, except now it is sclerotized.

The genus Calliphora also has a very distinct life cycle so based on the different stages that can be found on a corpse; therefore an accurate post mortem interval can be determined.

[4] Upon finding blowflies and or their larvae on a corpse, it is extremely important to accurately identify the correct species.

For example, a semi- rounded sclerite lying behind the mouth-hook of blowfly larvae exists only in C. loewi and C.

[5] Since both of these species of Calliphoridae tend to be found in rural areas, an entomologist can use these characteristics to determine a region or habitat where the victim died.

[6] Blowfly breeding and feeding hosts tend to be decomposing animals and dung, which are covered with bacteria that consequentially come in contact with the fly.

Lab studies have shown that blowflies coming in contact with agar have produced cultures that contain pathogens.

Although C. loewi does breed in carrion and possibly in human feces, it remains uncertain whether it carries or transmits disease.

C. loewi and other blowflies have been observed to be attracted to Phallus impudicus, the stinkhorn fungus, which tends to smell like carrion.

[7] Future research about the behavior of C. loewi will provide more information to gain a better picture of the lifecycle which will allow investigators to better estimate the time of colonization and PMI.