Kennett, Avondale, New Garden and Kennett Square — have declared emergency resolutions to combat the phorid fly crisis impacting this region. The collective ...

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 ...

“I’ll never forget campaigning door-to-door in Landenberg and Avondale that year and getting phorid flies in my hair, my eyes, and my ears,” said Chester County Commissioner Eric Roe.