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Public Health Mosquito FL Exam Questions and AnswersArbovirus - Answer -arthropod borne viral disease agent transmitted biologically by insects.
Arthropod - Answer -An animal of the phylum Arthropoda characterized by having a hard exoskeleton, body with a number of segments arranged longitudinally and paired jointed appendages. The phylum Arthropoda includes insects, spiders, mites, ticks, scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, etc.
Calibration - Answer -The adjustment of pesticide application equipment to apply a pesticide formulation at a desired application rate.
Cuticle - Answer -Thin, multilayered tissue covering insects and other arthropods. The outside layer is composed of proteins, waxes and "cement", while layers beneath contain chitin along with proteins and waxes penetrated by numerous pores and glands.
FDACS - Answer -Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Ditching - Answer -Creating ditches or furrows into a salt marsh to provide water circulation and to make the marsh available to fish
Enzootic - Answer -Animal diseases which are commonly present in a locality.
exoskeleton - Answer -The hard or tough external covering of arthropods to which their muscles are attached and which serves the same function as the bony skeleton of humans.
FAMA - Answer -Florida Anti-Mosquito Association
family - Answer -A group of related genera within an order.
fauna - Answer -Animal life of a given area.
faunal zones - Answer -is a generic term for the list of animal species occurring in a particular region. Fauna can refer to a prehistoric collection of animals, as might be inferred from the fossil record, or to a modern assemblage of species living in a region. More locally, a faunation refers to the communities of individuals of the various animal species and occurring in a particular place.
flora - Answer -Plant life of a given area.
FMCA - Answer -Florida Mosquito Control Association
FMEL - Answer -Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
Genus {genera} - Answer -A group of species considered more closely related to one another than to members of another genus (plural is "genera"); the first word in the scientific name of a species is the name of the genus
Impoundment - Answer -Coverage of the surface of a marsh with shallow water to prevent exposing substrate for salt march mosquito egg laying.
Insect growth regulator {IGR} - Answer -Synthetic insecticide which prevents normal development or causes delayed mortality of insects by disrupting a natural physiological
process.
Integrated Mosquito Management (IMM) - Answer -The use of a combination of biological, chemical, educational and physical control methods in order to maintain targeted species or populations of mosquitoes at an acceptable level.
label - Answer -General and technical information about a pesticide product in the form of printed material attached to or printed on the pesticide container.
Labeling - Answer -Technical information about a pesticide in the form of printed material provided by the manufacturer, including labels, flyers, handouts, leaflets and brochures.
Landing Rate Count - Answer -A method of determining adult mosquito levels by counting all mosquitoes that land on the visible portion of the body during a one minute period. Results are expressed as numbers of mosquitoes per minute
Mosquito Control Law - Answer -Chapter 388 Florida Statutes (F. S.) makes provision for arthropod control to be conducted on public land with certain conditions to be met
Mosquito Control Rules - Answer -Chapter 5E-13, Florida Administration Code (F.A.C) to spell out mosquito control law
Palpus (pl. palpi) - Answer -Five-segmented paired sensory appendages projecting from
the base of the proboscis.
PPE - Answer -personal protective equipment
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