NEW JERSEY 

 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS 



BULLETIN 348 



THE MOSQUITOES OF NEW JERSEY 

 AND THEIR CONTROL 



Thomas J. Headlee, Ph.D. 



JANUARY I, 1 92 1 



Introduction 



The supply of Bulletin 276, which bears this title, is exhausted 

 and the advance in knowledge of the subject is so large as to forbid 

 the mere reprinting of the matter contained. In view of the steady 

 demand for a publication of this sort, it seems necessary to prepare 

 a revision. 



As stated in Bulletin 276, it is proposed to prepare a brief, plain, 

 and reasonably accurate statement of the main points involved in 

 mosquito control. In a work of this sort, it is necessary to present the 

 recognition marks, the importance, the seasonal life history of the 

 more important species, then to discuss the underlying principles of 

 control work, and for the sake of completeness to submit a list and il- 

 lustrations of the other species that may be met. The nomencla- 

 ture adopted is that proposed by Howard, Dyar, and Knab in their 

 "Mosquitoes of North America, Central America and the West In- 

 dies." 



More than forty different species of mosquitoes are known to 

 occur in New Jersey, but fortunately only eight or ten of them can 



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