[APWG] NEWS: 'Kudzu bug' threatens to eat US farmers' lunch (fwd)

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Wed Oct 19 07:37:42 CDT 2011


http://news.yahoo.com/kudzu-bug-threatens-eat-us-farmers-lunch-194113212.html

'Kudzu bug' threatens to eat US farmers' lunch
By ALLEN G. BREED - AP National Writer | AP -- 13 mins ago

BLACKVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- Kudzu -- the "plant that ate the South" — has
finally met a pest that's just as voracious. Trouble is, the so-called
"kudzu bug" is also fond of another East Asian transplant that we
happen to like, and that is big money for American farmers.

Soybeans.

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