Florida Public Health Pest Control Exam
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control of salt marsh mosquitoes has tourist industry
made a major contribution to the
development of this industry in
Florida
inverse relationship or a steady rise Past relationship between tourism dollars and
in income from tourism to a steady mosquitoes
decline of the major salt marsh pest
mosquito, Aedes taeniorhynchus.
very swift currents and in open Mosquitoes occur throughout the world, breeding
bodies of water in almost every known aquatic habitat except
,Larval habitats - grassy margins of variations present among species
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 debating the John Randolph of Virginia
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 Leon Inlet "Barro de Mosquitoes"
because the mosquito was such a
plague when the Spaniards arrived
In the 18th Century, the name for part "The Mosquito Country," or "The Mosquitoes"
of Florida lying between the St. Johns
River and the coastal lagoons north
of Cape Canaveral
, Name given to Mosquito Country in "Mosquito County"
1825 when it became a county which
included a large portion of
peninsular Florida
Name for northern Florida that was "malaria belt"
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 sieges of 1877
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 epidemics raged in 1887
Key West, Tampa, Plant City, and
Manatee.
Year yellow fever epidemic in 1888
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.
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control of salt marsh mosquitoes has tourist industry
made a major contribution to the
development of this industry in
Florida
inverse relationship or a steady rise Past relationship between tourism dollars and
in income from tourism to a steady mosquitoes
decline of the major salt marsh pest
mosquito, Aedes taeniorhynchus.
very swift currents and in open Mosquitoes occur throughout the world, breeding
bodies of water in almost every known aquatic habitat except
,Larval habitats - grassy margins of variations present among species
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 debating the John Randolph of Virginia
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 Leon Inlet "Barro de Mosquitoes"
because the mosquito was such a
plague when the Spaniards arrived
In the 18th Century, the name for part "The Mosquito Country," or "The Mosquitoes"
of Florida lying between the St. Johns
River and the coastal lagoons north
of Cape Canaveral
, Name given to Mosquito Country in "Mosquito County"
1825 when it became a county which
included a large portion of
peninsular Florida
Name for northern Florida that was "malaria belt"
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 sieges of 1877
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 epidemics raged in 1887
Key West, Tampa, Plant City, and
Manatee.
Year yellow fever epidemic in 1888
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.
