Public Health Pest Control Exam Questions and Answers

Public Health Pest Control Exam Mosquito Control in Florida in 20th century - Answer- tourism rocketed after control of salt marsh mosquitoes, prior to this S. penninsular part of FL = unhabituale, orange county = mosquito county first organized mosquito effort in FL" WW1 joint effort between US army and US public health service @ camp johnson near jacksonville, 1919 city of Perry in the 30s and 40s 1500 miles of drainage ditches dug to drain mosquito breeding habitats, Burea of malaria Control created wtihin Division of Health, Mosquito COntroli n Florida, spraying of DDT how many species of mosquitoes in florida - Answer- 80+ equipment at a mosquito control district - Answer- Larviciding: backpack sprayer or hand-operated granular applicator, OR airplane and helicopter spraying adulticiding: fogging, spraying, or ULV spraying.. can use tractors/bulldozing/backhoes for impounding and filling used of fixed-wing aircraft is the most efficient means to adequately treat large areas of land Florida Anti-Mosquito Assisociation - Answer- formed in 1922, now known as the Florida Mosquito Control Association, FMCA) mosquito control law - Answer- chapter 388 florida statues has conditions for mosquito control provisions what department regulates funding of mosquito control districts, what does current funding act stipulate - Answer- Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, county/district shall be eligible to receive sate funds, the amount of which is described in chapter 5E-13.030 places eggs are laid - Answer- 1) deposited on water surface 2) deposited on sides of containers wehre water will soon cover them 3) put into damp soil where they mature before they can hatch in water 4) mansonia deposit eggs on the bottom and top of floating aquatic plants what is special about mansonia and coquiellititia larvae - Answer- dont take in oxygen from the surface of the water, instead they have a sharp pointed siphone to poke plants and take oxygen from the plant pupae "tumbler" stage - Answer- brief, no feeding, active only if disturbed, emerge into adults by splitting chitinuos pupal skin into an adult, dry wings classification of mosquitoes, how many - Answer- animalia, anthropods, insecta,