Mysterious seeds sent from China to Utah

Fox 13 ^ | 07 22 2020 | Adam Herbets

[Jamestown1630]

I think you mean Hogweed. That stuff is horrible, and it grows to be so huge in some areas. I’ve seen videos where it was being eradicated with machinery, so nobody had to get near it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum

[lightman]

OK...I should have limited my question to insects and botanicals.

[Dr. Sivana]

His screams were horrifying.

Especially chilling was that the only hint she knew what she had done was that she kept playing "Clair d'Lune" slightly faster, and slightly louder as he was burning up.

[Jamestown1630]

‘Insects and botanicals’....

and I would add viruses.

(On the other hand, if we hadn’t been exposed to so many things in the past, from people coming here with all kinds of disease that we probably couldn’t even recognize when we WERE screening immigrants - we wouldn’t know about them, wouldn’t have adapted a certain immunity to many of them, or learned to cope with others of them through vaccines and therapies.)

Life and Nature are always a crapshoot - and crap happens.

But Americans have never failed to learn and progress through adversity - and we’ll get through all of this, too.

[TigersEye]

I wouldn’t trust any FedMob agency at this point. Probably investigate you if you do that.

If you get seeds in the mail and don’t feel good about them just burn them.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Do the seeds look like this?

[LucyT]

PING

Over the past few weeks, people in Utah have been reporting mysterious packages they’ve been receiving in the mail from China.

" This is ecological and economic warfare. Send these seeds to the US department of agriculture."

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Patty McCormick was very nice in person. Never pushed any one at the Memorabilia Show down the steps. /sarc

[lightman]

We haven't found a natural enemy for the Emerald Ash Borer. "Triangle Razor Vine" is attacked by Japanese beetles and White-tailed deer do seem to like it...their tongues and palates are so rough that they eat the thorns off of another botanical pest, the Penn State Agricultural Science "fenceless pasture" invention called Multiflora Rose. The vine is VERY frost sensitive and will shrivel up at about 35˚.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#29. They are spelled differently. /sarc

[gundog]

Apparently turning up in Oregon, too.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#35. Re “ Tribbles were cute and loveable”. Yes, and taste like chicken! Coming to a McDonald’s near you, Tribble Nuggets. You want BBQ sauce with them?

[Jamestown1630]

Um, Yes.

[CrimsonTidegirl]

That was an incredibly disturbing scene. His screams were the most disturbing part of the movie.

I never thought that I would be so happy to see a young girl be killed by lightning. She had it coming:)

[Jamestown1630]

I’m not a vegetarian nor a vegan; but I would not eat a Tribble. I don’t eat fluffy, furry things.

I once bought catfish and tried cooking and eating it. I just couldn’t get beyond the memory of my brother’s squarium and its Pleco - and the fact that all catfish look sort of ‘furry’ to me, when they are alive.

I’ve probably eaten catfish at cookouts without knowing it, but I won’t buy and cook it. It’s just one of those weird ‘mind things’.

[matthew fuller]

"some of her friends reminded her plants and seeds are strictly regulated in Utah. "

Is anyone else curious about this?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Nope.

If you are a gardener you know that some plants are considered invasive species in some areas of the country and quite acceptable in others.

Black Locust is not allowed in my state of Michigan but in Ohio in considered perfectly fine.

[GOPJ]

Kudzu... the Chinese version.

[Stand Watch Listen]

the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food will likely team up with Customs and Border Protection agents to investigate.

[grey_whiskers]

Return of the Giant Hogweed