The great tumbleweed migration 2021.

[Arkansas Granny]

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Goonch]

1. Goin' home

?

[yellowdogintexas]

6. Sons of the Pioneers

classic Western music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vF7ylQpmr3-g

[yellowdogintexas]

7. this was the best I could do

when you click the You Tube, you will see several videos. Click on the Sons of the Pioneers video.

This was exhausting!

[Goonch]

9. ;-{)

[yellowdogintexas]

10. much improvement! nt

[Biophilic]

2. Wow, that is way weird to watch. Too cool. Thanks. nt

[jpak]

3. An Invasive Species indeed

Yikes

[eppur_se_muova]

4. Yep, Russian Thistle.

aka invading hordes from central Asia

[GemDigger]

5. Yes but I did find something interesting and good about them.

Tumbleweeds Good For Uranium Clean-Up

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041108021040.htm

A preliminary study reveals that tumbleweeds, a.k.a. Russian thistle, and some other weeds common to dry Western lands have a knack for soaking up depleted uranium from contaminated soils at weapons testing grounds and battlefields.

“There is some use to what we consider noxious weeds,” said geologist Dana Ulmer-Scholle of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro.

Depleted uranium (DU) is used in armor-piercing munitions. Although it produces only a low level of radiation, the metal poses a hazard in soils because it — like some other heavy metals — is toxic if ingested.

More at link.

[dalton99a]

8. They know where they're going