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Asian bug with a taste for kudzu -- and soybeans
Posted on Wednesday, November 2, 2011Could Megacopta cribraria -- the kudzu bug -- be the perfect predator for the South's invasive kudzu vine? The bug, which has spread from North Carolina to Alabama, is an invasive species also, unfortunately. Though it has the potential to consume up to a third of the eight million acres of the kudzu that blankets the South over the next decade, the bug is also chewing up soybean stalks.
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