[USCC] Fire ants and compost blankets

[M.Simons]

I recently attended a presentation put on by Paul Stamets of Fungi 
Perfecti.  According to the people who dragged me along to it, he is a 
leading expert on mushrooms and fungi.  You can see a bio and website at 
http://www.fungi.com/front/stamets/index.html  One of the things he talked 
about in this presentation was recent experiments of his and his discovery 
(and subsequent patent) of insect controls in relation to fungi and fungi 
spores.

In relation to this discussion it seems to me that the variety and level 
of attractiveness or repulsion that is seen between insects and 
distribution of composted and decaying organic matter could be explained 
and/or controlled by careful awareness and/or selection of the fungal and 
other material content of the compost or other organic materials that are 
used in preparing any sites.

While this seems to be a relatively new patent that does not yet have a 
comercially available application, I would expect that for anybody 
seriously looking at this problem or actively working with large 
applications he might be willing and interested to discuss the issue with 
you, if he isn't already a member of this list.

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