Ashley Yavorsky from Greenville, PA., works on paperwork in the campus's Occupational Therapy Lab. Yavorsky was the most recent student to receive funds from the staff-led "Fuel for the Future" fund.
Three life stages of the mushroom phorid fly are shown: from bottom, pupa, larva and adult. This species is an "obligate fungal feeder," meaning it cannot feed or survive on anything other than the thread-like fungal mycelium found in mushroom compost. The flies are not known to be a health hazard to humans or carry any human or animal disease-causing organisms, but the sheer numbers of them and their ability to infiltrate homes are severely stressing out some southern Chester County residents.
