Shapiro Administration Takes Action to Support Southeast PA Mushroom Farmers in Controlling Destructive Pest Phorid Fly

HARRISBURG– Last week, 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, or Megaselia halterata, a destructive pest causing crop damage to mushroom farms in Southeast Pennsylvania and creating a nuisance for nearby homeowners. It does not harm humans or present a public health threat…

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