The semiarid steppe landscape was drained by intermittent streams and was sometimes affected by dust and sandstorms, and moisture was seasonal.
The leaves of plants, on which flies naturally feed, contain more sugar in irrigated than in arid habitats.
The area is semiarid, receiving less than 20 in of rain annually; this rainfall supports the shortgrass prairie biome originally present in the area.
Coming from tropical semiarid habitat, they do not hibernate, and an attempt to have them do so will cause fatality.
Much of this literature is arid, self-evident and inadequately researched.
The presence of tsetse fly and the semi-arid conditions of the region had historically precluded settlement by large populations.
The hay was then set on fire arid the slight breeze carried the flames down the rows.
Seedling emergence and yield of pearl millet on naturally crusted arid soils in relation to sowing and cultural methods.
