@article {6713,
	title = {Entomopathogenic nematodes and forest insects in Italy},
	journal = {IOBC-WPRS Bulletin},
	volume = {30},
	number = {1},
	year = {2007},
	pages = {63-65},
	type = {Article; Meeting paper},
	abstract = {Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) in Italy are used above all in greenhouses and nurseries. Usually not indigenous but commercial EPNs are used from northern European producers. Application of EPNs in forest biotopes is uncommon and only experimental trials have been conducted on few forest pests. It is important to consider that during the past 10 years, the occurrence of EPNs (Rhabditidae: Steinernematidae and Heterorhabditidae) was investigated in pine and oak woods in Southern Italy. Six percent of pine woods and 15.5\% of oak woods were positive for the presence of nematodes. Steinernema feltiae was the most common (42\%) species in both pine and oak woods. S. feltiae, S. apuliae and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora were collected in the pine woods and S. feltiae and S. affine in the oak woods. Many of the following indigenous EPNs isolated from forest soils were used in laboratory and field trials to control some dangerous insect pests of forest and urban trees in the Apulia region: Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Lepidoptera: Thaumetopoeidae), Corythucha ciliata (Rhynchota: Tingidae), Galerucella luteola (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and Tomicus piniperda (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Indigenous EPNs were also used against Balaninus (= Curculio) elephas (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Sicily and the Lazio region, whereas indigenous and commercial strains of EPNs were used to control Cephalcia arvensis (Hymenoptera: Pamphilidae), Zeuzera pyrina (Lepidoptera: Cossidae), Cossus cossus (Lepidoptera: Cossidae), Parenthrene tabaniformis (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae) and Cryptorhynchus lapathi (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the northern regions of Italy.},
	keywords = {Cryptorhynchus lapathi},
	isbn = {1027-3115},
	author = {Tarasco, Eustachio and Triggiani, Oreste}
}
