NEW HAVEN — Mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus have been detected in 14 Connecticut communities so far this year, scientists with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station said in a release Friday.

Scientists said the mosquitoes had been found in Branford, Bridgeport, Darien, Greenwich, Guilford, Hartford, New Britain, New Canaan, New Haven, Newington, Norwalk, Stamford, Waterbury and Wethersfield.