Adrian Riskin · @AdrianRiskin
208 followers · 2538 posts · Server kolektiva.socialI lived in UCLA married student housing on sawtelle until around 1969. These were old garden style apartments, now torn down and replaced, and had a ton of lantana hedges.
When the lantana was in bloom it was continually surrounded by clouds of one particular kind of moth. I still live in Los Angeles and there's still lantana everywhere but I can't remember the last time I saw one of those moths.
From wiki I think they were
Lantanophaga pusillidactyla, which is a southern California native. The wiki page doesn't say if it's endangered or not, but it's certainly gone from Los Angeles in historic quantities.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantanophaga_pusillidactyla
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Some 9th Level Fighter built their fortress on #SawtelleBlvd #StreetPhotography
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