Kudzu bugs spread into D.C. , Maryland, Virginia, Delaware
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The pea-sized bugs look a bit like ticks, can suck one-fifth of the yield out of a soybean field, and travel by highway. In the 5 1/2 years since they were first spotted in Georgia, kudzu bugs have spread 400 to 500 miles west and north - as far as Louisiana, Arkansas, Washington, D.C., and its suburbs, and southern Delaware.
"We don't know any way to stop it," said Blake Layton, a Mississippi State University entomologist.
Kudzu bugs range from green to a brown so dark it's almost black. They look a bit like ticks and a bit like dark ladybugs with squareish backsides. Like their cousins the stinkbugs, they stink. Some people say the smell is fruitier than stinkbugs' stench; others say it's far more pungent.
A sonic wall plug in device is currently being tested for these bugs to keep them out of homes.
ReplyDeletewhat do you mean "we can't do anything about them"???? are you kidding? of course we can, we just don't.
ReplyDeleteI will now refer to those too lazy to work as Kudzu bugs since they are sucking the life out of the USA.
ReplyDeleteQuick....make another poison that will kill this bug and give our children another type of Autism.
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