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Pesticides Certification

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Pesticides Certification
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Pesticide application certification is divided into classes.

Each class is for a specific type of application as well as what the pesticides is used to control. Details are outlined below. For more home study course information, please visit our home study page.

All training starts with a core, then has specific lessons for each class. Home study training materials are grouped by these classes. Or, if you are adding a classification, you just purchase the particular lessons.

Further information:
  • You must be a certified structural pesticide applicator for 2 years before you can take the fumigation classification.
  • The stored agricultural product fumigation classification is a subset of the fumigation classification. The structural certification isn’t required. However, fumigation is limited to agricultural product pests in grain bins, elevators, rail cars and trucks.
  • The industrial classification includes herbicide applications to parking lots and landscaped areas surrounding industrial facilities to control designated noxious and restricted weeds.
  • The landscape class includes herbicide application to parking lots and roads for control of designated noxious or restricted weeds within urban areas, but doesn’t include brush control.

For more home study course information, please visit our home study page.

This class includes the use of pesticides applied by aircraft.

*This certificate class does not include the use of frones for application of approved products. Please see RPAS for drone application.

This class includes the use of pesticides by ground application for livestock and agricultural crops.

This class includes the use of pesticides by ground application for control of aquatic weeds in water bodies, including: still or flowing water or in areas left exposed during periods of low water, lakes, rivers, irrigation canals, ditches, and dugouts.

This class includes the use of insecticides by ground application to control mosquito or biting fly larvae or adults.

This class includes the use of pesticides by ground application in forest management operations or silviculture, forest seed orchards, outdoor nurseries, and plantations.

This class includes the use of all fumigants within enclosed structures or under vapour-proof barriers. This class includes fumigation in grain bins and elevators, buildings, rail cars, trucks, and closed vaults.

Note: An individual must have held a Structural Pesticide Applicator Certificate for two years prior to qualifying for a Fumigation applicator certificate.

This class is a subset of fumigation. It authorizes fumigant used to control only stored agricultural product pests in grain bins, elevators, rail cars and trucks.

Note: the structural certificate is not a prerequisite for this certificate.

This class includes the use of pesticides in greenhouses and mushroom houses during the storage, display, or production of agricultural crops, including vegetables, mushrooms, ornamentals, and forest tree seedlings.

This class includes the use of pesticides by ground application for controlling weeds and brush on industrial areas, including roadsides, power lines, pipelines, rights of way, easements, railways, petroleum well sites and equipment yards.

This class also includes herbicide applications to parking lots and landscaped areas surrounding industrial facilities for the control of designated noxious and restricted weeds.

This class includes the use of pesticides (other than fumigants) by ground application for the maintenance of ornamental trees, shrubs, flowers, and turf, on outdoor residential, commercial (e.g., golf courses and cemeteries) and public land.

This class includes herbicide applications to parking lots and roads to control designated noxious or restricted weeds within urban areas but does not include herbicide applications for brush control.

For example: Ant nest control in outdoor residential setting, including but not limited to along fence lines or driveways; turf maintenance, golf courses or residential; pest control of wasp nest removal within trees; weed control in shrub or flower beds. This does not include any biting fly applications or applications on a structure.

This class includes the use of pesticides for the prevention or control of pests that impact a structure or its inhabitants.

This class only includes applications directly on or in a structure as stated on the label.

For example: Bedbug, rodent, or cockroach control inside a structure/building, including, but not limited to, residential homes, condominiums, and schools. This does not include applications for exterior rodents, biting flies, or turf pests.

For the control of rodents in outdoor settings, including control in outdoor residential, commercial (e.g., golf courses and cemeteries) and public land.

This does not include rodent control within a structure.

This class includes the use of pesticides purposely applied to waters to eliminate fish species as a fishery management tool.

Use of pesticides on plants that are inside buildings. This includes atriums, plant groupings, and individual plant applications.

For the application only of federally registered pesticide products with RPAS as an approved method of application on the label.

Use of pesticides for the control of tree roots in residential and commercial sewer pipes.

Use of pesticides in the treatment of all types of seed with a pesticide registered for seed protection from diseases and insects during or shortly after the seed germinates.