hope you're fucking happy with yourselves -- kudzu finally has gone somewhere

[Blue_Tires]

'Vine that ate the South' has landed in the Great White North

It moves quickly, stretching across the countryside and engulfing trees, fences and homes.

Growing by as much as a foot per day, it reaches up hydro poles and across transmission wires, eventually collapsing them under its weight. It overtakes and suffocates trees and crops, pollutes watersheds and costs the U.S. agriculture industry a reported $500-million per year.

And now, the perennial and invasive kudzu vine has made it to Canada.

The kudzu was discovered two months ago in a small patch, 110 metres wide and 30 metres deep, on a south-facing slope on the shore of Lake Erie near Leamington, Ont., about 50 kilometres east of Windsor.

"It gets into a landscape and just takes over, and excludes just about everything else," said Rowan Sage, an ecology professor at the University of Toronto. "Once they get established and become endemic, they're just catastrophic."




http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/vine-that-ate-the-south-has-landed-in-the-great-white-north/article1299518/

[raccoon]

1. Then is Doomsday near......I always thought it would mean the end of the world if kudzu arrived in

Minnesota......and now it's in Canada....

thanks for the link.

[Odin2005]

9. I was gonna say the same thing!

:cry:

[Arugula Latte]

2. But can it survive the winter?

If so ... :scared:

[Orsino]

3. You'll need the antidote.

Eat grits. Kudzu can't kill you if you eat grits.

[PVnRT]

4. Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen it

[rug]

5. Maybe it will slow down the zombies.

That stuff is hard to shuffle through.

[AlienGirl]

6. I'm bullish on kudzu...

It's going places!

Tucker

[XemaSab]

7. I, for one, welcome our new kudzu overlords

:patriot:

[Odin2005]

8. NOOOOO!!!

:scared:

[JTG of the PRB]

10. I'll bet that kudzu wouldn't stand a change against a good flamethrower...

[csziggy]

11. One of the local activist proposed using kudzu to power a bio-fuel plant

The people that were pushing the plant originally wanted to bring in some new non-native fast growing plant to power it. I'm not sure if they've arrived at a final decision but the kudzu idea was being considered last I heard!

[swag]

12. Ha ha ha.

Bullishness justified!