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I was thinking you'd need mosquito fish, but it's better than that :
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Designed to drain water within a day, rain gardens serve as mosquito death traps, since mosquito eggs need more than 48 hours to grow into larvae. Native plants are drought-resistant, accustomed to our area’s soils, and attract butterflies and birds.
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I think that in LA, the closest we have gotten to this is some conversation about restoring the LA river to being a river and not a concrete ditch. Here's an organization helping the river :
Friends of the Los Angeles River
http://www.folar.org/index.html
CarloSW2