[APWG] NEWS: Kudzu-Eating Stinkbug May Attack US Soybeans

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Tue Apr 16 08:20:44 CDT 2013


http://news.yahoo.com/kudzu-eating-stinkbug-may-attack-us-soybeans-212340520.html

Kudzu-Eating Stinkbug May Attack US Soybeans
By Megan Gannon, News Editor | LiveScience.com -- 15 hrs ago

Pesky vines of kudzu native to Asia have crept throughout the southeastern 
United States in recent decades, and now a stinkbug that feeds on the 
plant is making an American invasion, too. Worse, new research shows that 
the kudzu bugs' taste for soybeans threatens crops outside of the South.

See the link above for the full article text about Kudzu bugs (Megacopta 
cribraria).





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