- Steinernema scapterisci was discovered in 1983 eating South American mole crickets. After labroatory tests, it was introduced in small areas in Florida in 1985. They have not eliminated mole crickets but have reduced the overall population, according to the University of Florida.
- Nematodes need to be buried in the ground where mole crickets are known to live. Wet the soil to help the nematodes crawl through and find the adult mole crickets. Nematodes can live in moist soil for 13 weeks. That usually is enough time for them to find a mole cricket.
- Nematodes enter the mole cricket, feed off of the cricket and reproduce. A female can lay up to 50,000 eggs. The mole cricket soon dies. The larvae crawl out into the soil and find another mole cricket.
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