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SALT LAKE CITY — It's lunchtime at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District and a colony of sabethes cyaneus — also known as the paddle-legged beauty for its feathery

Working on the front lines of mosquito control can be a prickly job at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District. A technician volunteered to stick her arm into a glass tank to give scores of the insects a chance to feed on her blood. It was all in the name of sustaining a species important for research. The district and others like it have an important public health role as climate change extends the season when mosquitoes can infect humans with dangerous viruses. The Salt Lake City district reported five times the usual number of mosquitoes following a winter of record snowfall, a wet s...

Working on the front lines of mosquito control can be a prickly job at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District. A technician volunteered to stick her arm into a glass tank to give scores of the insects a chance to feed on her blood. It was all in the name of sustaining a species important for research. The district and others like it have an important public health role as climate change extends the season when mosquitoes can infect humans with dangerous viruses. The Salt Lake City district reported five times the usual number of mosquitoes following a winter of record snowfall, a wet s...

“They're not very aggressive and they're kind of picky eaters,” said a technician. “So I'll be feeding them with my arm.”