Somewhat... Scary.

Two things that I found rather disturbing.

First, people in the area around South Carolina have probably heard of it, but I sure haven't, not until today, anyway. It's an extremely invasive plant similar to buckthorn, but far more aggressive. Kudzu is a transplant from Asia, and under the correct conditions, can grow up to 7 feet per week. This Kudzu site has a large number of pictures from the Eastern US documenting the voraciousness of this vine.



Similarly disturbing, and vastly creepier is an infestation of caterpillars over in central Europe. Not sure what language the site is in, but the pictures tell it all. I urge you to check out all of them, those dark areas are not dirt, they're thousands and thousands of caterpillars. Their webs cover EVERYTHING.

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