L. coeruleiviridis is one of the most ubiquitous blow fly species in the southeastern United States, particularly in the spring and fall months.

Respectively, these words mean cerulean blue, and greenish and refer to the color of the fly's body.

Like most flies, it also has tarsal pulvilli, soft pads at the end of each foot used to “stick” to surfaces; in this species they are slightly yellow in color.

The second instar can be characterized by the shape of the spiracles increasing in size as well as number in that the “Y-V” orientation becomes 2 distinct slits on each side.

[1] Typically the blowfly, such as Lucilia coeruleiviridis, will deposit their eggs by way of the female's abdomen, which extends to form an ovipositor, in areas around accessible natural body openings such as eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth, anus and genitals or near wounds.

Calliphorids are necrophagous so the eggs are dispatched on rotting animal remains and generally hatch after roughly twelve hours.

They will then undergo three larval stages (instars), which on average will take eleven to twenty days, if the ambient temperature is eighty degrees Fahrenheit.

[citation needed] Blow flies are generally the first to arrive on a carcass and Lucilia coeruleiviridis is no exception.

Unfortunately, not a lot of study has been done on the life cycle of Lucilia coeruleiviridis due to the fact that rearing of larvae has been largely unsuccessful.

[7] This idea may have originated much in the same way the theory of Spontaneous Generation came about around two millennia ago, based on how Calliphorids are typically the first insects to arrive on a carcass.

[8] Because the time of colonization and reproduction of different types of blowflies is so important, and species-specific, scientists are looking for techniques to more efficiently distinguish between similar looking larvae of various species.

This type of DNA is preferred because of its “high copy number, ease of isolation, and conserved sequence across taxa with supposed high mutation regions making discrimination between species, and even subspecies possible.”[9] Using lateral flow technology, an identified species-specific antigen is tested to determine whether the fly larva belongs to the predicted species.