The Commonwealth Beat with Laura LeBeau - Episode 119 - 06/21/2026

          Sometimes, reality can be stranger than fiction, and other times, it's just downright fascinating.  On this edition of The Commonwealth Beat, there's a little bit of both all wrapped up in the fairly small body of a parasitic blow fly with a very misleading name:  the New World Screwworm.  Pennsylvania agriculture officials are implementing new rules to keep the New World Screwworm far away.  State Beterinarian, Dr. Alex Hamberg has all the details.            Then, with the nation's Semiquincentennial happening in just a few weeks on July 4th, we'll make a "best of" PA-mazing pit stop to a place of revolutionary importance to this nation, the Brandywine Battlefield in Chester County.