The Shapiro administration is stepping in to help Pennsylvania’s mushroom farmers combat a destructive pest with a newly ...

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

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

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 ...

She said the state’s Department of Agriculture is leading those efforts, supporting research into new control technologies that will help reduce the amount of phorid flies in Chester County and ...

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 ...

These tiny phorid flies, often mistaken for drain flies or black fruit flies, can become a significant nuisance quickly due to their fast reproduction rate. Although the phorid fly life cycle is ...

Kennett Square has long billed itself as The Mushroom Capital of the World, but this past autumn the capital was invaded. The attacker? Phorid flies. Kennett Mayor Matt Fetick has issued an emergency ...

Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding announced Thursday that the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture will require mushroom farms in Kennett Township and New Garden Township in Chester County to ...

Invasive phorid flies have reached an all-time high in Chester County’s mushroom central, with residents of Kennett Square, Avondale, and Toughkenamon pointing the finger at nearby mushroom farms, ...