As a young naturalist growing up in the Deep South, I feared kudzu. I’d walk an extra mile to avoid patches of it and the writhing knots of snakes that everyone said were breeding within.

but kudzu, introduced from Asia for erosion control in the mid-20th-century South, does, and is considered therefore invasive. After researchers tag or collar an animal, does the device ever lead ...

Tennessee and every other state has animals, plants and insects that aren ... species that most people in the South know about are kudzu and the red imported fire ant, but there are plenty more ...