Oh, they've been around for quite a while! I can remember my dad telling me, when I was still very young, about watching birds drunk on fermented chinaberries! And that would have been about 1925, that he saw them, that it.IDK about drunken animals. IDK at all. What is this world turning into?
It is ubiquitous throughout the Deep South...in fact, that's kinda the definition of "Deep South," below the Spanish Moss line. LOL, those of us from there consider southerners from ABOVE the Spanish Moss Line to be "South Lite."That is Spanish moss on the trees, isn't it?
We get LOTS of missionaries in this area, for some reason. I almost get the creeps, watching them pedaling their bicycles during 85 degree heat with a humidity of 79%, and NOT ONE DROP OF SWEAT ON THEM! Even their very starched shirts don't ever wilt! It seems a little...unnatural! HOW DO THEY DO THAT?!?!?!but I've sen some of them walking around