‘A living hell’: how Los Angeles got taken over by mosquitoes
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Which is it, guardian?
that sucks
one of the only perks of living in the desert is no mosquitoes
Los Angeles is not a desert and never was. It was a vast region covered by wetlands prior to colonization. It may be surrounded by deserts to the north and east but it is not a desert. https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/the-lost-wetlands-of-los-angeles
And savanna. Specifically oak savanna. Grasslands turned to the most productive farms in the nation.
Yep, and chaparral.
It's not just LA. Nebraska has been overrun with them the last two years. Far more than I've seen in 48 years
I lived through being at the epicenter of the West Nile outbreak in Louisiana in the early 2000s and all I got was that stupid West Nile virus.