Independent (UK): A mosquito that has lived on the Galapagos Islands for thousands of years is emerging as a potential threat to the archipelago’s wildlife, because of an increase in tourism. Scientists fear the endemic insect could pick up diseases from other mainland mosquitoes brought to the Galapagos as stowaways on tourist ships and planes and then transmit the infections to the rare collection of indigenous animals on the islands. The black salt marsh mosquito distributed throughout the …