Public Health Pest Control Examination
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control of salt marsh mosquitoes has made a major contribution to the development of
this industry in Florida - correct answertourist industry
inverse relationship or a steady rise in income from tourism to a steady decline of the
major salt marsh pest mosquito, Aedes taeniorhynchus. - correct answerPast
relationship between tourism dollars and mosquitoes
very swift currents and in open bodies of water - correct answerMosquitoes occur
throughout the world, breeding in almost every known aquatic habitat except
Larval habitats - grassy margins of ponds, land crab holes, and aquatic plants, eggs
may be laid singly or in rafts, on water or on damp soil where they hatch in subsequent
flooding, flight ranges from a few hundred feet to more than eighty miles with favorable
winds, hibernation or overwintering in different species may be in the egg stage, as
larvae, or as adults - correct answervariations present among species
80 - correct answernumber of mosquito species in FL
When Congress was debating the merits of statehood for Florida, this man stated that
Florida could never be developed, nor would it ever be a fit place to live. He described
the 1 land as a "land of swamps, of quagmires, of frogs and alligators and mosquitoes."
- correct answerJohn Randolph of Virginia
Name given to Ponce de Leon Inlet because the mosquito was such a plague when the
Spaniards arrived - correct answer"Barro de Mosquitoes"
In the 18th Century, the name for part of Florida lying between the St. Johns River and
the coastal lagoons north of Cape Canaveral - correct answer"The Mosquito Country,"
or "The Mosquitoes"
Name given to Mosquito Country in 1825 when it became a county which included a
large portion of peninsular Florida - correct answer"Mosquito County"
,Name for northern Florida that was settled, but anything but a pleasant place to live.
Area suffered from disease, hardship, and poverty; the major cities of Jacksonville, St.
Augustine, Tallahassee and Pensacola - correct answer"malaria belt"
Year of one of the worst sieges of the yellow fever epidemic in in Jacksonville and
Fernandina Beach. It was described by historians as the State's worst holocaust.
Fernandina Beach, with a population of 1,632, had 1,146 persons ill with the fever.
Twenty-four died. - correct answer1877
Year yellow fever epidemics raged in Key West, Tampa, Plant City, and Manatee. -
correct answer1887
Year yellow fever epidemic in Jacksonville saw 10,000 persons (out of a population of
26,700 in Duval County) flee the city in carriages, drays, wagon trains, and ships. -
correct answer1888
Island was once so heavily infested with mosquitoes that bred in the vast grassy
marshes that the local postman had to make his rounds in July dressed like an Eskimo
in a parka and netting. - correct answerSanibel
Major event that spurred organized effort to control mosquitoes in Florida as a way of
preventing malaria when the U.S. Army, U. S. Public Health Service, and the State
Board of Health set up a program of drainage and larviciding at Camp Johnson, near
Jacksonville. - correct answerWWI
Year when the State Board of Health, the city of Perry, and the Burton Swartz Cypress
Company jointly set up a malaria control project in the city of Perry, one of the most
malarious areas of the State. At that time the Perry project was one of the largest
malaria control projects in the country and was the first non-military control project in
Florida - correct answer1919
Year of formation of the Florida Anti-Mosquito Association (FAMA) (now known as the
Florida Mosquito Control Association, FMCA) - correct answer1922
Year when Indian River County Mosquito Control District was established - correct
answer1925
Year when St. Lucie Mosquito District established - correct answer1926
Year when Broward County Mosquito Control District established - correct answer1934
Year when Dade County Mosquito Control District was established - correct
answer1935
By this year, there were 52 mosquito control districts in Florida, and that number has
remained fairly constant to the present day - correct answer1975
, Period when many malaria control projects were performed with funding from the Civil
Works Administration, Emergency Relief Administration of the Works Progress
Administration. During this period, more than 1,500 miles of drainage ditches were dug
throughout the state to eliminate mosquito breeding habitats. - correct answer1933 -
1941
year when a Bureau of Malaria Control was created within the Division of Health -
correct answer1941
Year when the U.S. Public Health Service set up the first Malaria Control in War Areas
project in Florida near Tallahassee - correct answer1942
Period when a program of DDT residual house spraying in malarious areas of Florida
was supported by U.S. Public Health Funds - correct answer1945 - 1949
Year when the Bureau of Malaria Control was abolished and a Division of Entomology
was created within the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering - correct answer1946
Year when the Division of Entomology was raised to Bureau status - correct
answer1953
Year when the Bureau of Entomology became the Office of Entomology - correct
answer1976
Year when Office of Entomology became Entomology Services in the Department of
Health and Rehabilitative Services - correct answer1986
Year when Entomology Services was moved to the Department of Agriculture and
Consumer Services (DACS), where it is now known as the Bureau of Scientific
Evaluation and Technical Assistance (BSETA). - correct answer1992
promoting control of insects of public health importance, serving as advisors and
consultants for mosquito control districts, and administering all state funds appropriated
for nonagricultural arthropod control work - correct answerFunctions of BSETA
Years when state laws were passed which set up methods for establishing self-taxing
mosquito control districts - correct answer1925, 1929, and 1941
Year when a state law was passed that provided State aid to districts in the form of
insecticides, materials, equipment, personnel, and vehicles - correct answer1949
State Legislature passed a second State aid law whereby any board of county
commissioners or mosquito control district that places funds in its budget for control of
"arthropods of public health importance", would, upon proper certification, receive funds
directly from the State of up to 75 percent of the funds appropriated by the county or
Questions and Verified Correct Answers
Updated 2026 Q&A | Instant Download
control of salt marsh mosquitoes has made a major contribution to the development of
this industry in Florida - correct answertourist industry
inverse relationship or a steady rise in income from tourism to a steady decline of the
major salt marsh pest mosquito, Aedes taeniorhynchus. - correct answerPast
relationship between tourism dollars and mosquitoes
very swift currents and in open bodies of water - correct answerMosquitoes occur
throughout the world, breeding in almost every known aquatic habitat except
Larval habitats - grassy margins of ponds, land crab holes, and aquatic plants, eggs
may be laid singly or in rafts, on water or on damp soil where they hatch in subsequent
flooding, flight ranges from a few hundred feet to more than eighty miles with favorable
winds, hibernation or overwintering in different species may be in the egg stage, as
larvae, or as adults - correct answervariations present among species
80 - correct answernumber of mosquito species in FL
When Congress was debating the merits of statehood for Florida, this man stated that
Florida could never be developed, nor would it ever be a fit place to live. He described
the 1 land as a "land of swamps, of quagmires, of frogs and alligators and mosquitoes."
- correct answerJohn Randolph of Virginia
Name given to Ponce de Leon Inlet because the mosquito was such a plague when the
Spaniards arrived - correct answer"Barro de Mosquitoes"
In the 18th Century, the name for part of Florida lying between the St. Johns River and
the coastal lagoons north of Cape Canaveral - correct answer"The Mosquito Country,"
or "The Mosquitoes"
Name given to Mosquito Country in 1825 when it became a county which included a
large portion of peninsular Florida - correct answer"Mosquito County"
,Name for northern Florida that was settled, but anything but a pleasant place to live.
Area suffered from disease, hardship, and poverty; the major cities of Jacksonville, St.
Augustine, Tallahassee and Pensacola - correct answer"malaria belt"
Year of one of the worst sieges of the yellow fever epidemic in in Jacksonville and
Fernandina Beach. It was described by historians as the State's worst holocaust.
Fernandina Beach, with a population of 1,632, had 1,146 persons ill with the fever.
Twenty-four died. - correct answer1877
Year yellow fever epidemics raged in Key West, Tampa, Plant City, and Manatee. -
correct answer1887
Year yellow fever epidemic in Jacksonville saw 10,000 persons (out of a population of
26,700 in Duval County) flee the city in carriages, drays, wagon trains, and ships. -
correct answer1888
Island was once so heavily infested with mosquitoes that bred in the vast grassy
marshes that the local postman had to make his rounds in July dressed like an Eskimo
in a parka and netting. - correct answerSanibel
Major event that spurred organized effort to control mosquitoes in Florida as a way of
preventing malaria when the U.S. Army, U. S. Public Health Service, and the State
Board of Health set up a program of drainage and larviciding at Camp Johnson, near
Jacksonville. - correct answerWWI
Year when the State Board of Health, the city of Perry, and the Burton Swartz Cypress
Company jointly set up a malaria control project in the city of Perry, one of the most
malarious areas of the State. At that time the Perry project was one of the largest
malaria control projects in the country and was the first non-military control project in
Florida - correct answer1919
Year of formation of the Florida Anti-Mosquito Association (FAMA) (now known as the
Florida Mosquito Control Association, FMCA) - correct answer1922
Year when Indian River County Mosquito Control District was established - correct
answer1925
Year when St. Lucie Mosquito District established - correct answer1926
Year when Broward County Mosquito Control District established - correct answer1934
Year when Dade County Mosquito Control District was established - correct
answer1935
By this year, there were 52 mosquito control districts in Florida, and that number has
remained fairly constant to the present day - correct answer1975
, Period when many malaria control projects were performed with funding from the Civil
Works Administration, Emergency Relief Administration of the Works Progress
Administration. During this period, more than 1,500 miles of drainage ditches were dug
throughout the state to eliminate mosquito breeding habitats. - correct answer1933 -
1941
year when a Bureau of Malaria Control was created within the Division of Health -
correct answer1941
Year when the U.S. Public Health Service set up the first Malaria Control in War Areas
project in Florida near Tallahassee - correct answer1942
Period when a program of DDT residual house spraying in malarious areas of Florida
was supported by U.S. Public Health Funds - correct answer1945 - 1949
Year when the Bureau of Malaria Control was abolished and a Division of Entomology
was created within the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering - correct answer1946
Year when the Division of Entomology was raised to Bureau status - correct
answer1953
Year when the Bureau of Entomology became the Office of Entomology - correct
answer1976
Year when Office of Entomology became Entomology Services in the Department of
Health and Rehabilitative Services - correct answer1986
Year when Entomology Services was moved to the Department of Agriculture and
Consumer Services (DACS), where it is now known as the Bureau of Scientific
Evaluation and Technical Assistance (BSETA). - correct answer1992
promoting control of insects of public health importance, serving as advisors and
consultants for mosquito control districts, and administering all state funds appropriated
for nonagricultural arthropod control work - correct answerFunctions of BSETA
Years when state laws were passed which set up methods for establishing self-taxing
mosquito control districts - correct answer1925, 1929, and 1941
Year when a state law was passed that provided State aid to districts in the form of
insecticides, materials, equipment, personnel, and vehicles - correct answer1949
State Legislature passed a second State aid law whereby any board of county
commissioners or mosquito control district that places funds in its budget for control of
"arthropods of public health importance", would, upon proper certification, receive funds
directly from the State of up to 75 percent of the funds appropriated by the county or
