An Invasive Disease-Carrying Mosquito Has Spread to the Rocky Mountains

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…