Ok, I was going to shut up, but I couldn't avoid passing on one more set of links, the main one from a plant path web page. Who could resist a singalong with "Good King Nematode" or "Ghost worms in the sky" or "Viva la nematode" or (to tune of "It's a small world") "An attempt to put Pratylenchus into perspective": see http://mgd.orst.edu/hyperSQL/squiggles/songs.html. Or how about some limericks: There was an old dodder from Bombay Who looked for a new place to stay. He chose a young thyme, Who quickly declined To feed an old dodder that way... Main page to find this, and many, many other goodies about plant diseases: http://www.ifgb.uni-hannover.de/extern/ppigb The silly stuff is in the "end of the year message" link. Kay Lancaster kay@fern.com just west of Portland, OR; USDA zone 8