A few years ago, Alex posted about kudzu , a peculiar invasive species of fast-growing vine...  ...has become a symbol of the South. Photographs of kudzu covering trees, telephone poles, and abandoned ho...  ...at generation of Southern writers largely ignored kudzu , its metaph...

What's underneath this massive, overgrown, p...  ...social network. See also: Houses Covered in Kudzu Hello! Who's in there? When police offi...

(Video Link) From 1935 through the 1950s, U.S...  ...From 1935 through the 1950s, U.S. farmers planted kudzu to prevent soil erosion. This proved to be a bad...  ...back by eating it, as this woman does by cooking kudzu into quiches. -via Nan Koenig

For 50 years, farmers, scientists, and homeowners...  ...nd homeowners have looked for a way to get rid of kudzu . The invasive plant native to Japan grows at such...  ...ide to Atlanta on a plane from Asia in 2009, eats kudzu . The kudzu bug could eat away a third of the *s...

Since kudzu was imported from Japan, it has grown the cover t...  ...Now another Asian import is flourishing by eating kudzu . The globular stink bug (Megacopta cribraria), na...  ...rises, and he has seen them swarming in roadside kudzu patches. "You smell them when you get...