Smart toilets can clean users, play music, and heat up, and they're getting more popular. And phorid flies are invading ...

Kennett, Avondale, New Garden and Kennett Square — have declared emergency resolutions to combat the phorid fly crisis ...

When Brendan Nerney wakes up, it's not the sound of his alarm clock he dreads, but the dull buzzes from bug zappers strung ...

Invasive phorid flies have reached an all-time high in Chester County’s mushroom central, with residents of Kennett Square, ...

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’s ...

The phorid fly population exploded in Chester County in 2024, filling houses with swarms of insects — and leaving homeowners ...

People in Chester County, Pa., are being besieged by invasive flies.

drain flies, Phorid flies and fruit flies in various reports dating back years. "The establishment does have a history of noncompliance and was previously closed by the health department on Jan ...

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 ...

“This year by far has been the worst,” Fetick said of the phorid fly proliferation in the borough. “We have had more people reaching out than ever before and its was very clear and obvious this year ...

The elaboration of the Taxonomic Catalog of the Brazilian Fauna allowed the recognition of Phoridae as the family of flies with most species recorded for Brazil. The phorids are incredibly diverse ...