Florida Public Health Pest Control Exam
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control of salt marsh tourist industry
mosquitoes has made a
major contribution to the
development of this
industry in Florida
inverse relationship or a Past relationship between tourism dollars and
steady rise in income from mosquitoes
tourism to a steady
decline of the major salt
marsh pest mosquito,
Aedes taeniorhynchus.
very swift currents and in Mosquitoes occur throughout the world, breeding in
open bodies of water almost every known aquatic habitat except
,Larval habitats - grassy variations present among species
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
80 number of mosquito species in FL
When Congress was John Randolph of Virginia
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."
Name given to Ponce de "Barro de Mosquitoes"
Leon Inlet because the
mosquito was such a
plague when the
Spaniards arrived
, In the 18th Century, the "The Mosquito Country," or "The Mosquitoes"
name for part of Florida
lying between the St.
Johns River and the
coastal lagoons north of
Cape Canaveral
Name given to Mosquito "Mosquito County"
Country in 1825 when it
became a county which
included a large portion
of peninsular Florida
Name for northern Florida "malaria belt"
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
Year of one of the worst 1877
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.
Year yellow fever 1887
epidemics raged in Key
West, Tampa, Plant City,
and Manatee.
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control of salt marsh tourist industry
mosquitoes has made a
major contribution to the
development of this
industry in Florida
inverse relationship or a Past relationship between tourism dollars and
steady rise in income from mosquitoes
tourism to a steady
decline of the major salt
marsh pest mosquito,
Aedes taeniorhynchus.
very swift currents and in Mosquitoes occur throughout the world, breeding in
open bodies of water almost every known aquatic habitat except
,Larval habitats - grassy variations present among species
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
80 number of mosquito species in FL
When Congress was John Randolph of Virginia
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."
Name given to Ponce de "Barro de Mosquitoes"
Leon Inlet because the
mosquito was such a
plague when the
Spaniards arrived
, In the 18th Century, the "The Mosquito Country," or "The Mosquitoes"
name for part of Florida
lying between the St.
Johns River and the
coastal lagoons north of
Cape Canaveral
Name given to Mosquito "Mosquito County"
Country in 1825 when it
became a county which
included a large portion
of peninsular Florida
Name for northern Florida "malaria belt"
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
Year of one of the worst 1877
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.
Year yellow fever 1887
epidemics raged in Key
West, Tampa, Plant City,
and Manatee.
