MOSQUITO CONTROL APPLICATOR EVALUATION EXAM
2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Practice Question: The larvae of which genus lays parallel to the water surface? -
✔✔Anopheles
✔✔Practice Question: Which life cycle stages do not feed? - ✔✔Egg and pupae
✔✔Aedes sollicitans (Tan Salt Marsh Mosquito) - ✔✔Salt marsh-breeding species
Vector for: VEE & EEE
Floodwater mosquito
Strong fliers and viscious
Key Characteristics:
1. Tan stipe down head and thorax
2. Pointed abdomen
3. Stripey legs
4. Pale band on the proboscis
✔✔Aedes taeniorhynchus (Black Salt Marsh mosquito) - ✔✔Salt marsh-breeding &
freshwater near marsh
Just like sollicitans, just black.
Key Characteristics:
1. Dark brown/Black in color, has hair present on head and thorax but not in the same
color strength as sollictans
2. Pointed abdonmen
3. Stripy legs
4. Narrow pale bands on the bases of most segments of the tarsi and proboscis.
✔✔Aedes vexans - ✔✔Floodwater & temporary bodies of water
Vector for: WNV, EEE, CE, & canine heartworm
Key characteristics:
1. Pointed abdomens
2. Strips on legs are not as prominent, but they are there.
3. Pale bands on abdomen form an inverted "V"
✔✔Psorophora columbia (Dark Rice Field Mosquito) - ✔✔Rieland ecosystem
Fierce biters in day and night time. Can kill off livestock in large quantities.
Key characteristics:
1. Apical pale marking on abdomen; markings triangular or divided into paired sub
median patches.
2. Proboscis broadly banded with white.
, ✔✔Psoropohora ferox (Woodland Mosquito) - ✔✔Woodland mosquito
Headhunter mosquito -> it goes for the upper body and head of people
Key Characteristics:
1. Body scales are blue-purple
2. Has white socks
✔✔Aedes aegypti (Yellow Fever Mosquito) - ✔✔Container breeding mosquito
Vector for: Yellow Fever, dengue, chikungunya, and Zika
Key characteristics:
1. Lyreshaped white markings on head.
2. Black and white coloring
✔✔Aedes albopictus (Asian Tiger or Forest Day) - ✔✔Container breeding mosquito.
Accidentally imported through tires from Japan.
Vector for: Dengue fever, yellow fever, etc.
Aggressive mosquito that has replaced Ae. aegypti and Ae. triseriatus.
Key characteristics:
1. White stripe through head and thorax.
2. Black and white coloring
✔✔Aedes triseriatus (Eastern Tree Hole Mosquito) - ✔✔Woodland tree holes and in
man-made containers.
Cold-hardy and more abundant in early and late seasons
Key Characteristics:
1. Thorax has white scales lined along the sides.
2. The abdomen has white triangles.
3. Black and white
✔✔Anopheles quadrimaculatus - ✔✔Permanent Water
****Vector: Malaria******
Key Characteristics:
1. Female abdomens are dark and blunt.
2. Wings have four dark spots
✔✔Anopheles crucians - ✔✔Permanent Water
Acidic environments such as cypress swamps, rice fields, and bonds.
Key characteristics:
1. Wings with alternating white and dark spots. Tip of wing white with three dark spots
on anal vein, and front margin of wing dark-scaled.
2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Practice Question: The larvae of which genus lays parallel to the water surface? -
✔✔Anopheles
✔✔Practice Question: Which life cycle stages do not feed? - ✔✔Egg and pupae
✔✔Aedes sollicitans (Tan Salt Marsh Mosquito) - ✔✔Salt marsh-breeding species
Vector for: VEE & EEE
Floodwater mosquito
Strong fliers and viscious
Key Characteristics:
1. Tan stipe down head and thorax
2. Pointed abdomen
3. Stripey legs
4. Pale band on the proboscis
✔✔Aedes taeniorhynchus (Black Salt Marsh mosquito) - ✔✔Salt marsh-breeding &
freshwater near marsh
Just like sollicitans, just black.
Key Characteristics:
1. Dark brown/Black in color, has hair present on head and thorax but not in the same
color strength as sollictans
2. Pointed abdonmen
3. Stripy legs
4. Narrow pale bands on the bases of most segments of the tarsi and proboscis.
✔✔Aedes vexans - ✔✔Floodwater & temporary bodies of water
Vector for: WNV, EEE, CE, & canine heartworm
Key characteristics:
1. Pointed abdomens
2. Strips on legs are not as prominent, but they are there.
3. Pale bands on abdomen form an inverted "V"
✔✔Psorophora columbia (Dark Rice Field Mosquito) - ✔✔Rieland ecosystem
Fierce biters in day and night time. Can kill off livestock in large quantities.
Key characteristics:
1. Apical pale marking on abdomen; markings triangular or divided into paired sub
median patches.
2. Proboscis broadly banded with white.
, ✔✔Psoropohora ferox (Woodland Mosquito) - ✔✔Woodland mosquito
Headhunter mosquito -> it goes for the upper body and head of people
Key Characteristics:
1. Body scales are blue-purple
2. Has white socks
✔✔Aedes aegypti (Yellow Fever Mosquito) - ✔✔Container breeding mosquito
Vector for: Yellow Fever, dengue, chikungunya, and Zika
Key characteristics:
1. Lyreshaped white markings on head.
2. Black and white coloring
✔✔Aedes albopictus (Asian Tiger or Forest Day) - ✔✔Container breeding mosquito.
Accidentally imported through tires from Japan.
Vector for: Dengue fever, yellow fever, etc.
Aggressive mosquito that has replaced Ae. aegypti and Ae. triseriatus.
Key characteristics:
1. White stripe through head and thorax.
2. Black and white coloring
✔✔Aedes triseriatus (Eastern Tree Hole Mosquito) - ✔✔Woodland tree holes and in
man-made containers.
Cold-hardy and more abundant in early and late seasons
Key Characteristics:
1. Thorax has white scales lined along the sides.
2. The abdomen has white triangles.
3. Black and white
✔✔Anopheles quadrimaculatus - ✔✔Permanent Water
****Vector: Malaria******
Key Characteristics:
1. Female abdomens are dark and blunt.
2. Wings have four dark spots
✔✔Anopheles crucians - ✔✔Permanent Water
Acidic environments such as cypress swamps, rice fields, and bonds.
Key characteristics:
1. Wings with alternating white and dark spots. Tip of wing white with three dark spots
on anal vein, and front margin of wing dark-scaled.
