Fun with Google

Searching the internets...

• invasive species: 2,280,000 hits (an 82% decrease since September 2006 - Google must be up to something!)
  
  
• "invasive species" and "love": 303,000 hits
• "invasive species" and "hate": 98,700 hits ....hmmm
  
  
• "invasive species" and "climate change": 577,000 hits
  
  
• "invasive species" and "kudzu of the": 90 hits

Species compared to kudzu in the USA:

• beach vitex (kudzu of the coast)
• cape ivy (kudzu of the west)
• Asiatic bittersweet (kudzu of the mid-Atlantic)
• mile-a-minute vine (kudzu of the North)
• Old World climbing fern (kudzu of the South) [wait, isn't *kudzu* the kudzu of the South?]