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Culex pipiens females oviposit, and larvae survive, in a wide array of aquatic habitats, including gutters, birdbaths, pools, rain barrels, treeholes, and stagnant pools of water [ 18 21 ] . In many of these aquatic habitats, leaf litter forms the basis of the food web.
Far more acquired valuable skills but lived in stagnant economies that could not generate satisfying jobs.
Almost single-handedly, Murdoch has modernized the world's media, forcing competition on stagnant businesses, cracking open monopolies and oligopolies, vanquishing "traditions" that were often an excuse for laziness, unleashing the creative destruction of capitalism on an industry that thought itself exempt from it.
However, elsewhere around Kathmandu, there are other stagnant ponds from which rise statues of Nagas; these ponds, too, are dedicated to the snake gods.
By then, the city had become a stagnant backwater.