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Clover Lynn
Warren, OH · 5 months ago

I'm fairly confident that once these weeds break off they only deposit seeds and don't come back to life. Acting like they are some sort of animal seeking water is wild. 😆

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Cheryl Haass
Cumberland, MD · 5 months ago

Perhaps water could be used to control them.

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Rock Hog
West Monroe, LA · 5 months ago

Rollin, rolling, rolling yea haw

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Penny Whistle
Prescott Valley, AZ · 5 months ago

Those things are evil. Painful to handle, impossible to get rid of. I did have one that seemed to be seeking something. It kept rolling and bashing into my gate. So I opened the gate and set it free. I waved goodbye as it rolled down the street. The funny thing to watch here is when they roll across roads in herds. We just stop and let them go by

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Speedy T
Warrior Run, PA · a month ago

This is how the movie Critters was thought up

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Katherine Robertson
Williams, AZ · 5 months ago

And anyway, they’re like turtles the mother turtle lazy eggs, and never returns

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WellIllBe
Atlanta, GA · 5 months ago

this is completely not true what they're talking about is the dinosaur plant. this s*** is getting old

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rene petersen
Alice, TX · 4 months ago

tumble weeds and resurection plants are 2 completely different plants!

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McHerbLer420
Jay, ME · 4 months ago

you can eat them too they are eatable

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chivo
Reno, NV · 4 months ago

Miss information at its best

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Mike Jones
Mesquite, TX · 4 months ago

amazing

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Bobby52
Long Beach, NY · 5 months ago

when was the study finding that dead weeds "live" over 100 years? what a BS, silly post. i don't know why thay post these ridiculous things.

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RL Wright
Roseburg, OR · 5 months ago

Texas has tumbleweeds. you do not want to be run over by one.

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Leslie Ammons
Southfield, MI · 5 months ago

Very interesting!

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Eric Mueller
Glendale, CA · 5 months ago

This is dumb.

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Hammer805
Morro Bay, CA · 5 months ago

they spread their seeds when they get wet 😂😂 me too!

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Pilsbury
Carrollton, TX · 5 months ago

a dumb coworker also tried to tell me that tumble weeds were still alive

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Mic B.
Winston-Salem, NC · 5 months ago

😭

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Thomas Burley
Vancouver, WA · 5 months ago

my mother would sing the DRIFTING ALONG LIKE A TUMBLING TUMBLEWEED

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La Migra Is Coming
Atlanta, GA · 5 months ago

There was a documentary made in 1986 about them called Critters

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Mary MurphyKellis
Superior, MT · 5 months ago

they're like pigeons, you find them everywhere.

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SpeakUp
Sinking Spring, OH · 5 months ago

Pretty cool 😊

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George Harvard
Tallahassee, FL · 5 months ago

that's impressive I've seen a lot of tumbleweeds but I never knew that thank you

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Linda Winchester
Rockford, IL · 5 months ago

See them tumbling down Pledging their love to the ground

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Clinton Stark
Watsonville, CA · 5 months ago

Russian Thistle, right?

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Linda Winchester
Rockford, IL · 5 months ago

I still remember Kenny getting off the bus and being hit by a tumbleweed

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CHARLENE Thomas
Orlando, FL · 5 months ago

interesting !!

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Julie Presley
Spring Hill, FL · 5 months ago

wow

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Carol Oday
Grand Rapids, MI · 5 months ago

had no clue. thankyou

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Terisa Maybir
Honolulu, HI · 5 months ago

😰😰

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j
Winchester, ID · 5 months ago

tumbleweeds are a great example of how evolution isn't an intelligent or beneficial process like everyone thinks... imagine a field of bushes... we'll call em stayweeds. these bushes live in a valley. they grow, drop seeds, die, and the seeds grow the next generation. sometimes there's mutations. some mutations give that bush an advantage, and it's seeds thrive better, and the mutation becomes the new normal for a stayweed. voila evolution. now one day, a mutation occurs where a stayweed has a weak crappy stem. wind blows, crappy stem breaks, stayweed gets blown out of the valley and tumbles for miles and miles and miles, dropping seeds all over the place, creating a new generation, not of stayweeds, but of crappy weak stemmed tumbleweeds... all of which will repeat this cycle and spread throughout all the lands everywhere, wildly bypassing the stayweeds in proliferation, all due to a crappy weak little stem that snapped off in the first windstorm...

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mutt313
Clarkston, MI · 5 months ago

the ones on Nevada are massive...with spikes / large thorns..saw one 100lb. one jammed under the front end of a corvette....needless to say...the front end was toast 😆

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Peggy Keep
Lansing, MI · 5 months ago

They look alive when you see them..Desert creatures!😆😆😆

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Kal Fakhoury
Claremont, CA · 5 months ago

Bull

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TinySquare
Mustang, OK · 5 months ago

Evolution cooked with this one

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B
Irvine, CA · 5 months ago

Interesting 👍

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Andrew Young
Murfreesboro, TN · 5 months ago

those are tumbleweeds those have thorns and they're not fun to be messed with we have tumbleweeds in California and in Texas and they can roll around and hit cars and scratch them and hit people with it always want to be aware of tumbleweeds

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Steven not Stephen
5 months ago

Wrong. The wind blows them and their seeds fall off. The tumbleweed is completely dead! I love hitting them with my car! They explode!

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Michael Regruto
Sparta, WI · 5 months ago

we have those in grand coulee

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Jack Fubar
Denver, CO · 5 months ago

lol, wtf is this?

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