Apparently throughout the southeastern United States, the Japanese “pest weed” kudzu engulfs abandoned homes and buildings. Georgia, Tennessee, Florida are the concentrated areas of the kudzu growth where cities are developing prevention programs, which in Chattanooga, TN includes the use of goats and llamas. [Cynical-C]

According to the Wikipedia entry, “… it would soon be discovered that the southeastern US has near-perfect conditions for kudzu to grow out of control — hot, humid summers, frequent rainfall, temperate winters with few hard freezes (kudzu cannot tolerate low freezing temperatures that bring the frost line down through its entire root system, a rare occurrence in this region), and no natural predators. As such, the once-promoted plant was named a pest weed United States Department of Agriculture in 1953.”