This paper uses the theory of Gilles Deleuze to address the disjuncture between (a) the mechanical, chemical and thermal processes of transduction that determine the biogeographical life of the mosquito, and (b) the spatialities of historic and contemporary management strategies. The history of mosquito management reveals two operative spatial ontologies one an immanent horizontalism underwriting an intimate strategy of detection and destruction of breeding sites, the other a transcendent verticalism approrpriate for the partitioning of space in support of widespread chemical spraying of adult populations. We find that two institutions in contemporary, mosquito rich Arizona - the Pima County Health Department and Maricopa County Vector Control - are representative of this split in management. In this paper we attempt to account for the observed inter-agency differences. Doing so, we suggest, requires an assemblage theory that brings together managers, institutions and socioinstitutions, and socio-cultural-environmental-technological-political context with the flights of the mosquito itself.

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