Common Name: oyster mushroom fly
The larvae feed in mushroom mycelium and/or on decaying fungal, animal or plant tissue. Adults are not known to feed, but likely imbibe liquids from environmental substrates. These flies have been used in laboratory studies of developmental gene expression (Bulllock et al. 2004).
Economic Impact : A pest of oyster mushroom and other commercially grown mushrooms (Kim et al. 1999)