| Category |
Description |
1A. |
Field Crops |
Includes agricultural crops such as cereal grains, feed grains, beans, soybeans, sugar beets and forage. |
1B. |
Vegetable Crops |
Includes vegetables crops such as tomatoes, potatoes, snap beans, celery, onions, cucumbers and sweet corn. |
1C. |
Fruit Crops |
Includes tree fruits, blueberries, strawberries and raspberries. |
1D. |
Livestock
Pest Management |
The application of pesticides to animals and to places on or in which animals are confined. (Doctors of veterinary mediciine engaged in the business of applying pesticides for hire, aside from the normal practice of veterinary medicine.) |
2. |
Forest Pest Management |
Includes forests, forest nurseries and forest seed producing areas, Christmas trees and gypsy moth. |
2A. |
Forest Products
Preservation |
Includes the use of pesticides for preserving wood products such as poles, timbers and lumber. |
3A. |
Turfgrass Pest
Management |
Includes persons who use or supervise the use of pesticides to manage pests of turfgrasses. |
3B. |
Ornamental Plants
and Shade Tree
Pest Management |
The use of pesticides to manage pests of ornamental plants in exterior areas such as evergreens, shrubs and shade trees. |
4. |
Seed Treatment |
The application of pesticides on seeds. |
5. |
Aquatic
Pest Management |
The application of pesticides to standing or running water, i.e., lakes, ponds, streams, marshes, or ditches and tributaries which flow into them or the surfaces that contact such bodies of water for the purpose of managing aquatic pests. This category does not include applicators who engage in mosquito management. |
5A. |
Swimming Pools |
Includes pesticides used in maintaining public or private swimming pools to control algae, bacteria or other swimming pool pests. |
5B. |
Microbial
Pest Management |
The use of pesticides to manage bacteria, fungi, algae or viruses in cooling towers, air washers, evaporative condensers, pulp and paper mills, sewer treatment, cutting tool lubricants, etc. |
5C. |
Sewer Line
Pest Management |
The use of pesticides to manage vegetation in sewer lines. |
6 |
Right of Way
Pest Management |
The use of pesticides to maintain public roads, electric power lines, pipelines, right-of-way, parking lots, tennis courts or similar non-crop areas are included in this category. Applicators engaged in regulatory activities such as those included in Category 9 are excluded. |
7A. |
General
Pest Management |
Is comprehensive and intended to include aspects of pest control in and around structures. Category 7D is included in categroy 7A when controlling veterbrate pests typically associated with a structure, such as rats, mice and roosting birds. |
7B. |
Wood Destroying
Organisms
Management |
Includes the use of pesticides for the management of wood-destroying pests such as: termites, powder post beetles, carpenter ants, wood destroying fungi, etc. |
7D. |
Vertebrate
Pest
Management |
Includes the use of pesticides to manage vertebrate pests. |
7E. |
Interior Plant
Pest Management |
Includes the use of pesticides in the maintenance of plants at inside locations. |
7F. |
Mosquito
Management |
Includes pesticides used to manage mosquitoes in an outside environment. |
7G. |
Domestic Animal
Pest Management
|
Refers to pesticide applications made on small domestic animals or in places where animals are kept. This category of pesticide application does not apply to large agricultural animals. (See category 1D.) |
8. |
Public Health
Pest Management |
Includes state, federal or other governmental employees who use or supervise the use of pesticides in public health programs for the management of pests that have medical and public health importance excluding mosquitoes. |
9. |
Regulatory
Pest Management |
Includes state, federal or other governmental employees who use or supervise the use of pesticides in the control of regulated pests. |
10. |
Demonstration
& Research
Pest
Management |
Includes individuals who demonstrate to the public the proper use and techniques of the application of pesticides or who conduct field research with pesticides. |
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