The researcher who gave the talk applied for the release permit and if all goes well it will be out and about by the end of the year. I have more hope for this random fungus though. I think the fungus also attacks some landscape trees (since it is native to the area it had to come from somewhere) but it is mostly soil-borne so its not likely to cause an epidemic (but can hitch a ride on the exoskeleton of the weevils under lab conditions - field not tested yet).