This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
It can carry life-threatening diseases. It’s difficult to find and hard to kill. And it’s obsessed with human blood.
The Aedes aegypti is a species of mosquito that people like Tim Moore, district manager of a mosquito control district on the Western Slope of Colorado, really don’t want to see.
“Boy, they are locked into humans,” Moore said. “That’s their blood meal.”
This mosquito species is…

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