Orwi@programming.dev to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago‘A living hell’: how Los Angeles got taken over by mosquitoeswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down12
arrow-up148arrow-down1external-link‘A living hell’: how Los Angeles got taken over by mosquitoeswww.theguardian.comOrwi@programming.dev to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square7linkfedilink
minus-squareZachariah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·2 days agothat sucks one of the only perks of living in the desert is no mosquitoes
minus-squareapfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down3·edit-22 days agoLos 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
minus-squareChicoSuave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoAnd savanna. Specifically oak savanna. Grasslands turned to the most productive farms in the nation.
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.