Presentation on controlling the invasive kudzu.

1. Kudzu Control
• The History of the Invasive
• Strategies in Missouri and Illinois
• Integrated Herbicide Techniques
• Bioherbicides

10. Strategies in Missouri and Illinois

11. Illinois Noxious Weed Law
Section 220.60 - Noxious Weeds
State of Illinois noxious weeds include one
forest invasive: Kudzu (Pueraria montana ).
Illinois Exotic Weed Act
Conservation (525 ILCS 10/) - Illinois Exotic
Weed Act. The Illinois Exotic Weed Act makes it
unlawful to buy, sell, offer for sale, distribute,
or plant seeds, plants or plant parts of listed
exotic weeds in Illinois

12. Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 263
Insect Pests and Weeds
Section 263.232
“(2) To control the spread of kudzu vine
(Pueraria lobata), which is hereby designated
as a noxious and dangerous weed to
agriculture, by methods in compliance and
conformity with the manufacturer's label
instructions when chemical herbicides are
used for such purposes…”

14. The Illinois Exotic Species Task Force and the
River to River Cooperative Weed Management
Area (CWMA) had their beginnings in the
kudzu control program.

16. Control Strategies

18. IDNR; Shimp J.
IDNR; Shimp J.

21. Foliar Application

25. Vine Origin Treatments

30. Bioherbicides?

36. Bob Gillespie
Missouri Department of Conservation
SE Region
2302 County Park Drive
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
robert.gillespie@mdc.mo.gov