v=1 In the warmer months, it’s not uncommon to find your indoor space disrupted by an unexpected guest: the phorid fly, also called the filth fly. These tiny phorid flies, often mistaken for ...

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

Phorid flies, particularly those from the family Phoridae, have emerged as promising biological control agents against various ant species, especially leaf-cutting ants like Atta laevigata and ...

Shapiro administration takes action to support Southeast PA Mushroom Farmers in controlling destructive phorid fly ...

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 ...

But Nerney and his wife's home is now one of the latest in the area to be invaded by thousands of phorid flies, which thrive in the soil of the mushroom farms near his property. The invasion is ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Jun., 1991), pp. 305-310 (6 pages) The phorid genus Melaloncha Brues and the species Beckerina setifrons Borgmeier, Coniceromyia latimana (Malloch), Megaselia ...

Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding announced that the PA Department of Agriculture has taken a new, proactive step, in issuing a quarantine order to control Phorid Flies, ...

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