Commercial Pesticides Applicator
Department of Agriculture Licensed areas:
- Core – covers pesticide laws and regulations, reading the label, best practices for handling and storage, pesticide calculations, human toxicity, applicator safety, and environmental protection.
- 6a – General Ornamental Pest Control – application of pesticides to control insects and diseases of exterior ornamental plants and trees, and weeds of exterior ornamental areas such as landscape beds, tree and shrub plantings, sidewalks, driveways, or similar areas.
- 7 – Vertebrate – application of pesticides for the control of pest birds whether within or outside of structures, for the control of rodents, and any other vertebrates declared by the director to be a pest, in situations other than covered under category 10.
- 8 – Turf – application of pesticides to lawns, turf, sod, or to soil areas being prepared for the production of turf for the control of pests except vertebrates.
- 10a – General Pest Control – application of pesticides in or around human dwellings, industrial plants and business offices, food-handling establishments, schools, hospitals or other institutions, warehouses, grain elevators, or similar buildings to control pests, including rodents of such structures or of occupants, furnishings or provisions of those structures except for the control of pest birds and wood-destroying insects or fungi.
- 10b – Termite – application of pesticides in or around various structures, or to the ground prior to construction of a structure for the control of termites and other invertebrate wood-destroying organisms.
- 10d – Mosquito, House Fly and Other Vector Control – application of pesticides outdoors to control invertebrate pests which pose a threat to public health or those which institute a nuisance to humans such as mosquitoes, house flies, chiggers, and ticks.
- 12 – Wood Destroying Insect Diagnostic Inspection – the examination of a structure at the request of any party involved in a contemplated real estate transaction for a wood-destroying insect inspection.
