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 The order form and bulletins listed below are in Adobe's Acrobat Reader and you may need to download and install a newer version of this application.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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List of Categories & Manual Order Form

List of Categories
& Manual Order Form