Pest Control

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Pest Control

• Lesson 7

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1. What are the types of agriculture pesticide
applicators?

• Private applicators
• use restricted-use pesticides on their own
  property
• Commercial applicators
• paid to use pesticides on someone elses property

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2. Who certifies these applicators and how are
they certified?

• Arizona Department of Agriculture
• Caries out programs in the areas of pesticide
  registration and use
• Requires all to pass an examination yearly

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3. What are the eight required permits,
certificates, and licenses that the Environmental
Services division issues concerning pesticides?

• Growers permit
• issued to growers who buy pesticides for their
  own crops
• Sellers permit
• to dealers who sell and distribute pesticides
• Custom applicators license
• for those who apply pesticides for hire by
  ground application and air

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3. continue

• Equipment license
• required for each piece of custom application
  equipment
• Agricultural Aircraft Pilots License
• required for any person who acts as an
  agriculture aircraft pilot
• Agricultural Pest Control Advisor License
• to act as an authority and written pesticide use
  recommendations in the pest management field

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4. What must be on every pesticide label? Locate
them on your label

• Trade name
• Common name
• Formulation
• What insect it will control
• Net contents total amount of chemical in
  container
• Name and address of the manufacturer of the
  pesticide

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5. What are three possible signal words that a
pesticide label could contain and what do they
mean?

• Danger
• high toxicity
• a taste to a teaspoon could kill an average
  person
• Warning
• moderate toxicity
• a teaspoon to a tablespoon kills
• Caution
• low toxicity relatively harmless
• takes an ounce to more than a pint to kill the
  average person

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6. What are some precautionary statements on a
pesticide label?

• Hazardous to humans and domestic animals
• Hazardous to the environment
• Physical and chemical hazards
• Keep out of reach of children

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7. What does the pesticide label directions tell
us?

• Identifies pests controlled by product
• Crop, animals, or other sites on which it may be
  used
• How, when and where to apply
• How much to use