In the yard yesterday, I came upon a fly amanita. This is a mushroom — Latin name Amanita muscaria — that you don’t want to harvest and eat.

The state is helping farmers fight phorid flies by making $500,000 in grants available through the Chester County Conservation District. "We have been working closely with the mushroom industry ...

The cage fungus, a brightly colored mushroom, smells like death and drips brown slime to attract flies, which helps the fungus spread.

Those residents have been dealing with a devastating infestation of tiny mushroom flies that sneak into their homes, covering their walls and […] Skip to content. All Sections.

Santa’s flying sleigh makes a lot more sense once you learn about this little reindeer game.

In a lot of ways, growing mushrooms flies in the face of everything people associate with farming -- there are no neatly tilled fields, no bright red tractors and no low-flying crop dusters.