FLORIDA PUBLIC HEALTH PEST CONTROL EXAM COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANS WERS LATEST UPDATE JUST RELEASED THIS YEAR

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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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