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FLORIDA PUBLIC HEALTH PEST CONTROL EXAM
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
VERIFIED ANS WERS LATEST UPDATE JUST
RELEASED THIS YEAR
Question: Period when a program of DDT residual house spraying in malarious areas of Florida
was supported by U.S. Public Health Funds - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1945 - 1949
Question: Year when the Bureau of Malaria Control was abolished and a Division of
Entomology was created within the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔1946
Question: Year when the Division of Entomology was raised to Bureau status - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔1953
Question: Year when the Bureau of Entomology became the Office of Entomology - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔1976
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Question: Year when Office of Entomology became Entomology Services in the Department of
Health and Rehabilitative Services - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1986
Question: 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 ANSWER✔✔1992
Question: 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 ANSWER✔✔Functions of BSETA
Question: Years when state laws were passed which set up methods for establishing self-taxing
mosquito control districts - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1925, 1929, and 1941
Question: Year when a state law was passed that provided State aid to districts in the form of
insecticides, materials, equipment, personnel, and vehicles - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1949
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Question: 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 district.
These funds were to be used for permanent control measures; additional appropriations were
given as matching funds for either permanent or temporary control measures - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔1953 State Aid Law
Q:control of salt marsh mosquitoes has made a major contribution to the development of this
industry in Florida - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔tourist industry
Question: inverse relationship or a steady rise in income from tourism to a steady decline of
the major salt marsh pest mosquito, Aedes taeniorhynchus. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Past
relationship between tourism dollars and mosquitoes
Question: very swift currents and in open bodies of water - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Mosquitoes
occur throughout the world, breeding in almost every known aquatic habitat except
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Question: 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 ANSWER✔✔variations present among species
Question: 80 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔number of mosquito species in FL
Question: 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
ANSWER✔✔John Randolph of Virginia
Question: Name given to Ponce de Leon Inlet because the mosquito was such a plague when
the Spaniards arrived - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔"Barro de Mosquitoes"
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FLORIDA PUBLIC HEALTH PEST CONTROL EXAM
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
VERIFIED ANS WERS LATEST UPDATE JUST
RELEASED THIS YEAR
Question: Period when a program of DDT residual house spraying in malarious areas of Florida
was supported by U.S. Public Health Funds - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1945 - 1949
Question: Year when the Bureau of Malaria Control was abolished and a Division of
Entomology was created within the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔1946
Question: Year when the Division of Entomology was raised to Bureau status - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔1953
Question: Year when the Bureau of Entomology became the Office of Entomology - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔1976
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Question: Year when Office of Entomology became Entomology Services in the Department of
Health and Rehabilitative Services - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1986
Question: 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 ANSWER✔✔1992
Question: 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 ANSWER✔✔Functions of BSETA
Question: Years when state laws were passed which set up methods for establishing self-taxing
mosquito control districts - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1925, 1929, and 1941
Question: Year when a state law was passed that provided State aid to districts in the form of
insecticides, materials, equipment, personnel, and vehicles - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔1949
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Question: 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 district.
These funds were to be used for permanent control measures; additional appropriations were
given as matching funds for either permanent or temporary control measures - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔1953 State Aid Law
Q:control of salt marsh mosquitoes has made a major contribution to the development of this
industry in Florida - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔tourist industry
Question: inverse relationship or a steady rise in income from tourism to a steady decline of
the major salt marsh pest mosquito, Aedes taeniorhynchus. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Past
relationship between tourism dollars and mosquitoes
Question: very swift currents and in open bodies of water - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Mosquitoes
occur throughout the world, breeding in almost every known aquatic habitat except
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Question: 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 ANSWER✔✔variations present among species
Question: 80 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔number of mosquito species in FL
Question: 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
ANSWER✔✔John Randolph of Virginia
Question: Name given to Ponce de Leon Inlet because the mosquito was such a plague when
the Spaniards arrived - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔"Barro de Mosquitoes"
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