Look for small, white phorid fly larvae or pupae, which indicate an active breeding site . It’s worth searching less obvious areas like cracks in plumbing, broken pipes, and any other ...
Those include introducing microscopic nematodes and mites — natural predators that damage phorid fly larvae before they hatch (without harm to the mushrooms that make it to the shelves ...
This process involves raising the temperature of mushroom growing houses to the point that neither phorid flies nor their larvae can survive. Phorid flies have been a problem on mushroom farms ...
https://doi.org/10.2307/3495920 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495920 Larvae of phorid flies in the genus Pseudacteon have the unusual habit of decapitating fire ...