Look for small, white phorid fly larvae or pupae, which indicate an active breeding site . It’s worth searching less obvious areas like cracks in plumbing, broken pipes, and any other ...

Phorid flies, particularly those from the family Phoridae ... laying their eggs inside the bodies of worker ants, where the larvae then feed on the host's internal tissues. This natural predation ...

Those include introducing microscopic nematodes and mites—natural predators that damage phorid fly larvae before they hatch (without harm to the mushrooms that make it to the shelves ...

Pennsylvania is stepping up efforts to protect its $1.1 billion mushroom industry from an invasive insect that's harming ...

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“The only thing in the world that these phorid larvae can eat are the growing mycelia,” Wolfin said. He described phorid flies as a worldwide pest. The state’s quarantine order, which will ...

KENNETT SQUARE — Southern Chester County is abuzz with hopeful solutions to tackle the rising impact of the phorid fly, an invasive pest responsible for destroying as much as 40% of the region ...

According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, folks in places such as Kennett Square and Avondale — the former being he aforementioned mushroom capital — have noticed an uptick in the phorid fly ...

Those include introducing microscopic nematodes and mites — natural predators that damage phorid fly larvae before they hatch (without harm to the mushrooms that make it to the shelves ...