{"id":486,"date":"2013-10-30T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T09:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/plrltd.co.uk\/?p=486"},"modified":"2013-10-10T10:04:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T09:04:46","slug":"its-complicated-when-plants-and-animals-other-than-japanese-knotweed-are-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plrltd.co.uk\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s complicated when plants and animals other than Japanese knotweed are involved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We read with interest about a knotweed summit held<!--more--> in the USA this summer. Read the full article <a title=\"Full summit report here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/538305.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and you will see what a momentous task they have! It&#8217;s bad enough in the UK (<a title=\"Contact PLR Ltd UK\" href=\"https:\/\/plrltd.co.uk\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">contact us now<\/a> if you think you have Japanese knotweed!), but there is soooo much land for the knotweed to spread over in the US. Here&#8217;s a little snippet: One of the problems with dealing with Japanese knotweed is that it&#8217;s only one of many issues that highway workers and others have to deal with. For instance, highway workers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>are told not to mow knotweed along roadsides,<\/li>\n<li>but are supposed to mow the invasives such as wild parsnip and purple loosestrife before they go to seed&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>and monarch butterfly advocates are now saying that highway departments shouldn&#8217;t mow milkweed plants because they are the sole source of food for reproducing monarchs, a species on the decline<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Complicated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the problems with dealing with Japanese knotweed is that it&#8217;s only one of many issues that highway workers and others have to deal with. 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