Sal:
Ther are more than 1000 papers on entomopathogenic nematodes.
A year or so ago, there was one published in the IPM practioner.
Also a number of popular articles have come out. I have seen
in the past articles in California Farmer, Sunset, Organic Gardening,
Sacramento Bee (newspaper), Wall street Journal... Plus all the
scientific journals... We have publsihed in california Agriculture,
and I have given dozens of talks throughout the state.
I will be giving a talk at UC Riverside on March 29 at *:30
am. The Nematology Workshop will be held that day and I will have
a 30 m inute talk at 8:30 (sorry about the * am. In after the afternoon,
I will have on hands dissection of insects infected with
nematodes, a video and some available commercial products. There are
at least 4 or 5 companies producing these nematodes worldwide.
It just happens that the one in Palo Alto is closeby. But Ecogen in
Pennsylvani, Biologic in Pennsylvania, Kopperts in Netherlands,
China, and others are producing nematodes on a large scale.
There is a book by Gaugler and Kaya 1990 (out of print now..
it was abest seller and all 700 copies have been sold.. there is
no plan to reprint this) which camptures the essence of the state of the art
as of 1989.
I hope this additional information helps.. How far are you from
Riverside?? Registration for the workshop is $40..
It used to be $30 up to March 20. More information can be obtained
by calling 916 752 7691. The rest of the program, is on plant
parasitic nematodes including a talk on hot water treatment, mol biol
of nematodes, biological control of nematodes with fungi.
Regards