I am actively seeking further information on the inhibition of the sticky traps. Many scientific studies have been done to find out what conditions are optimal for sticky trap formation. (when I say sticky trap I mean LESION - remember, the lesions are the sticky traps).
They do a lot of studies on farm animals. Insecticides are loosing their effectiveness on nematodes, so scientists came up with another bright idea (not) to feed parrafin- covered arthrobotrys fungus to cattle, for example, so that when the animal poops, the fungus will be right there to consume whatever worms are in the feces. They have to treat the fungus with some sort of covering, otherwise the fungus does not make it through the digestive system of the cow. It's rumen destroys it.
Anyway, they have found that a low nutrient background is good for sticky trap formation. The fungus senses that there is little food available so puts out traps to get it nutrition requirements.
GOOD for sticky trap formation EQUALS bad for us.
This is why people have discovered that putting honey on a lesion helps. The fungus senses there is a carbohydrate available and doesn't need to put the energy into forming traps.
Another aspect is nitrogen. Low nitrogen equals high trap formation.
I put a drop of plant fertilizer on a couple lesions, to try it. 1.6% nitrogen if you're interested. Pretty much burns. Lesion looks a little better but I've also done heat and honey. So don't know for sure which one did it.
I probably should try one treatment at a time but I'm in so much pain with this one and my whole jaw is swollen. I feel I can't afford the luxury of trying that. So I end up not knowing for sure which one helped. Oh well...
Cow dung smell INCREASES TRAP FORMATION.
I know you wanted to know that. Seriously, we could have some farmers on here. Get away from the cow dung or your skin will be a mess!
http://aem.asm.org/cgi/reprint/45/1/290.pdf Soil Biology Movies (This is a cool movie of a nematode getting stuck in a sticky trap. Select NEM/TRAP)