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 ...

When Brendan Nerney wakes up, it's not the sound of his alarm clock he dreads, but the dull buzzes from bug zappers strung throughout his Chester County home. Throughout the historic Avondale property ...

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 ...

Kennett Square has long billed itself as The Mushroom Capital of the World, but this past autumn the capital was invaded. The ...

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, ...

This is a gross one. Thousands of phorid flies are invading the properties of Chester County homeowners. My colleague Jesse Bunch talked to one guy who owns a historic Avondale property, where the ...

🪰 Phorid flies thrive in the soil of the mushroom farms. Fly population exploded in Chester County in 2024, filling houses with swarms of insects — and leaving homeowners with little recourse. 🪰 The ...

folks in places such as Kennett Square and Avondale — the former being he aforementioned mushroom capital — have noticed an uptick in the phorid fly population. “There’s flies in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 part ...