New Mexico Vector Control Manual
A Study Aid for the Category 8 (Public Health) Pesticide Applicator Exam*
New Mexico Department of Health
Epidemiology and Response Division
Infectious Disease Epidemiology Bureau
Zoonoses Program
Santa Fe, New Mexico
March 2008
Photo credits
Flea, CDC
Deer Mouse, Ted L. Brown
Mosquito, USDA/ARS
Deer Tick, USDA/ARS/Scott Bauer
*Certification, licensing and testing of pesticide applicators in New Mexico is conducted by the New Mexico Department of Agriculture.
Also see the National Pesticide Applicator Certification Core Manual.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Mosquito Control Responsibilities 
Chapter 2. Importance of Mosquitoes
Chapter 3. The Mosquito Life Cycle
Chapter 4. Bionomics of Important Genera of Mosquitoes Common to New Mexico
Chapter 5. Classification and Identification of Mosquitoes of New Mexico
List of NM Mosquitoes; Key to NM Adults; Two Introduced Species; Mosquito Drawings
Chapter 7. Philosophy of Mosquito Control
Chapter 9. Insecticide Application Equipment for Mosquito Control
Chapter 12. Domestic Rats and Mice
Chapter 13. Plague in New Mexico