State of West Virginia Department of Agriculture

Classes will be available for 6 months after date of purchase. Upon completion of all classes, email Help@PestNetwork.com for your final signed certificate.

Recertification

The laws of the state of West Virginia provide for the licensing of three (3) types of pesticide applicators. These are:

1. COMMERCIAL APPLICATORS – apply pesticides for hire to the property of others
2. CERTIFIED PUBLIC APPLICATORS – employees of local, state and federal government agencies
3. PRIVATE APPLICATORS – agricultural producers who apply pesticides on their own property

In order to maintain an applicator’s license, an applicator must be recertified every three (3) years. Recertification may be accomplished in two ways:

1. Earning a specified number of West Virginia Department of Agriculture approved Continuing Education Units (CEU’s)
2. Retaking and passing the examinations

For more information regarding recertification through the West Virginia Department of Agriculture contact:

Peggy K. Powell, Ph.D.

West Virginia Dept. of Agriculture Pesticide Regulatory Programs

(304) 558-2209

ppowell@ag.state.wv.us

Continuing Education

It should be noted that:

1. One Continuing Education Unit (CEU) equals one-half (1/2) hour of educational instruction.
2. A CEU may be credited to more than one (1) category if it is approved in that(those) category(s).
3. An applicator can not receive credit for the same course

WEST VIRGINIA COMMERCIAL PESTICIDE APPLICATOR CATEGORIES

Each of the CEU courses cost $15.00.

The following courses and appropriate CEU credits have been approved by the West Virginia Department of Agriculture.

• Beetles that Attack Wood: Identifying Beetles That Will Reinfest – 1 CEU
• Beetles that Attack Wood: Identifying Beetles That Will Not Reinfest – 1 CEU
• The Eastern Subterranean Termite – 1 CEU
• Environmental Protection -1 CEU
• The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Its Role in Pesticide Application – 1 CEU
• Facets of IPM in Field Crops – 1 CEU
• Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) – 1 CEU
• Identifying Cockroaches In and Around the Home – 1 CEU
• Life History and Habits of Carpenter Ants – 1 CEU
• Managing Pesticide Drift – 1 CEU
• Pesticide Applicator Safety – 1 CEU
• Pesticide Families – 1 CEU
• Principles of IPM in Field Crops – 1 CEU
• Principles of Pest Control on Lawn and Turf – 1 CEU
• Recognition and Control of Some Small Vertebrate Pests Small Mammals – 1 CEU
• Sucking Pests of Ornamental Shrubs – 1 CEU
• The Greenbug – 1 CEU NEW!