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 Rich Buckley, a researcher at Rutgers told me that Arthobotrys 
(those fungi that lasso and kill phytopathogenic nematodes) are 
ubiquitous.  In his examination of soils from all over the world, every 
sample had them. 
  
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  Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 7:22 
  PM 
  Subject: [compost_tea] Re: Root-knot 
  nematodes 
  
  --- In compost_tea@yahoogroups.com, 
  soilfoodweb@a... wrote: > To trap nematodes, you need little tiny 
  lassos, or maybe fishing  lines.   >  > OK, I'll 
  behave.  What you need to do is find a good source of  forest soil 
  that has the nematodes.  I should go back through the SFI  database 
  and point out to people where the good sites are that we  know about. 
   >  > Mark Sturges (MGrove@h...) has good nematodes and the best 
   diversity in his worm compost that I've ever seen in compost.  Joe 
   Richards has lots of bacterial-feeders in his worm compost (sorry, no 
   e-mail, you can look on the SFI website for his info, in the products 
   section). >  > The HJ Andrews - in un-disturbed areas - has 
  great diversity of  nematodes.  The HJ Andrews is an long term 
  ecological study site of  the NSF, in the mts in Oregon.  The forests 
  around Fort Lewis in  Washington State  - again, undisturbed - have 
  good diversity, but be  careful of the tanks rolling around.  They get 
  fairly nasty about  unauthorized people on the property, so maybe not a 
  good place to go  on your own.  And again, you have to know where the 
  place has not  been disturbed.   >  > So, the best way to 
  do an inoculum is to test a few local places  you think would be good for 
  nematodes, again, undisturbed to the  greatest extent possible. > 
   > You can do the Bearman funnel extraction, and see all the wigglies 
   with a disecting scope, but you need to be able to ID them to know if 
   they are good or bad guys.  You need a DIC microscope to do 
  that.   Send them to SFI for ID.  Or hope for the best in your 
  compost. > 
  
 
  <><><><><<<<<<<<<<<<<>When 
  is open house (show and tell)  at your  lab?  
  Dennis
 
 
 
 
 
  > Elaine Ingham > President, Soil 
  Foodweb Inc. > SFI Corvallis, OR > SFI Port Jefferson, NY > 
  SFI Lismore, NSW, Australia > SFI Hilversum, The Netherlands > SFI 
  Cambridge, New Zealand > www.soilfoodweb.com
 
 
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