phorid fly

Chelle Hartzer

You Don’t Know Karst (AKA: Bring out your dead!)

It’s almost October so I’m perfectly okay with starting the Halloween series. Because it is the best holiday of the year. I was doing a...

Chelle Hartzer

Petty Pot Crimes (AKA: Highs and lows)

This happens to a lot of people. It’s a little embarrassing but, to be perfectly honest: I’ve done it. Particularly in the winter months...

Chelle Hartzer

In Person Conferences! (AKA: Scary but good)

Charles Darwin once wrote to his friend: I am dying by inches, from not having anybody to talk to about insects. Over the last week, I...

Chelle Hartzer

Oh Karst! (AKA: What the phorid?)

I once had a situation of phorid flies in a home. Since phorid flies are attracted to wet, decaying material, the first thing to do was...