Japanese knotweed
Americannoun
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The Money squad discusses the Chase infinite money TikTok craze, the “founder mode” craze, and the menace of Japanese knotweed.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
KINGSTON, Mass. — Asa Peters marched into a thicket of Japanese knotweed in the woods of coastal Massachusetts this month and began steadily hacking the towering, dense vegetation down to size.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
Institute FC was forced to leave the Riverside Stadium in 2017 due to severe flooding and a subsequent infestation of Japanese knotweed.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2022
Japanese knotweed is so invasive, it's heavily sprayed with herbicides, but if you find an area that definitely hasn't been sprayed, dig in; Nelson says it's delicious.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2021
Suzanne Lommen, an entomologist at the Institute of Biology in Leiden, the southern city where the Japanese knotweed was first introduced in the Netherlands, is coordinating the trial.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2020
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