Kudzu-eating stinkbug may attack US soybeans

Tuesday, April 16, 2013 - 13:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

By Megan GannonLiveSciencePesky 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 researchshows that the kudzu bugs' taste for soybeans threatens crops outside of the South.Kudzu (Pueraria montana) was first introduced to the United States as an ornamental ...    

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