LOL! We had 5 bushes in our back yard. My husband tried to kill them by cutting them down to the ground. They came back the next year, healthier than ever, with more and greener foliage. He got rid of one, but it took digging it out enough to pull it out with the truck. Our daughter, Ellendra, made honeysuckle jam one year. It was very pretty and tasty, too.
Smells great when in bloom but can pull down a fence! Do you have your daughter’s jam recipe?
Unfortunately, ours is Lonicera tatarica, not Lonicera japonica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonicera_tatarica
I’ll do some digging and see if they share that particular compound. They might not.