Phorid flies are a major nuisance ... Look for small, white phorid fly larvae or pupae, which indicate an active breeding site . It’s worth searching less obvious areas like cracks ...

Unlike sciarid flies, phorid flies prefer warmer temperatures and tend to invade mushroom houses later in the crop cycle. Their larvae—creamy-white maggots up to a quarter-inch long—feed on ...

In southeastern Pennsylvania, where 60 percent of U.S. mushrooms are grown, phorid flies are posing a threat to the industry, destroying up to 40 percent of the crop and invading homes. To combat the ...

However, they note that flies are attracted to "foul-smelling ... Even more disturbing, some baby maggots, called larvae, were spotted wriggling through his urethra, raising fears they had made ...

But the larvae clearly already know this, since Vila and his colleagues also identified numerous other antenna-like tentacles along their bodies, which they suggest help the baby flies communicate ...

This adaptation improves the flies' ability to locate hosts for their larvae, increasing their chances of survival. "It's important to understand how the sensory systems of eavesdroppers evolve ...