List of Categories
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Below is a list of categories in the Michigan pesticide applicator certification system. Manuals may be ordered through the MSU Bulletin Office or by using the Training Manual Order form. The order form and bulletins listed below are in Adobe's Acrobat Reader and you may need to download and install a newer version of this application.

Certification Category

Bulletin #

Descriptions

Private applicator

E3007

Michigan Private Applicator Core Manual Addendum shrink wrapped with National Pesticide Applicator Core Certification Manual.

Registered Technician

E3008

Michigan Commercial Applicator Core Manual Addendum shrink wrapped with National Pesticide Applicator Core Certification Manual.

Commercial applicator

Spanish Language Core Manual

E3008


E2195-SP

Michigan Commercial Applicator Core Manual Addendum shrink wrapped with National Pesticide Applicator Core Certification Manual. In addition, commercial applicators are required to become certified in at least one of the categories applicable to their work activities listed below.

1A, Field crops

E2034

Includes agricultural crops such as cereal grains, feed grains, beans, soybeans, sugar beets and forage.

1B, Vegetable Crops

E2160

Includes vegetables crops such as tomatoes, potatoes, snap beans, celery,  onions, cucumbers and sweet corn.

1C Fruit Crops

E2891

Includes tree fruits, blueberries, strawberries and raspberries.

1D, Livestock

E2601

The application of pesticides to animals and to places on or in which animals are confined.  (Doctors of veterinary medicine engaged in the business of applying pesticides for hire, aside from the normal practice of veterinary medicine.)

2, Forest

E2045

Includes forests, forest nurseries and forest seed producing areas, Christmas trees and gypsy moth.

2A, Wood Preservation

E2046

Includes the use of pesticides for preserving wood products such as poles, timbers and lumber.

3A, Turfgrass

E2327

Includes persons who use or supervise the use of pesticides to manage pests of turfgrasses.

3B, Ornamental

E2291

The use of pesticides to manage pests of ornamental plants in exterior areas such as evergreens, shrubs, and shade trees.

4, Seed Treatment

E2035

The application of pesticides on seeds.

5, Aquatic

E2437

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 Pool

E2621

Includes pesticides used in maintaining public or private swimming pools to control algae, bacteria or other swimming pool pests.

5B, Microbial

E2435

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 Root Control E2609 The use of pesticides to manage vegetation in sewer lines.

6, Right-of-way

E2043

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, Structural

E2048

Is comprehensive and intended to include aspects of pest control in and around structures.  Category 7D is included in category 7A when controlling veterbrate pests typically associated with a structure, such as rats, mice and roosting birds.

7B, Wood Destroying

E2047

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

E2050

Includes the use of pesticides to manage vertebrate pests.

7E, Interiorscape

E2308

Includes the use of pesticides in the maintenance of plants at inside locations.

7F, Mosquito

E2180

Includes pesticides used to manage mosquitoes in an outside environment.

7G, Small Animal

E2492

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

E2049

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

E2055

Includes state, federal or other governmental employees who use or supervise the use of pesticides in the control of regulated pests.

10, Demonstration

none

Includes individuals who demonstrate to the public the proper use and techniques of the application of pesticides or who conduct field research with pesticides.

Aerial Standard

E2019

Required (in addition to the Core Manual) by anyone who applies pesticides aerially.
Fumigation Standard
E2579
Required (in addition to the Core Manual) by anyone performing fumigant applications of pesticides
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