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Category SPCA: Structural Pest control
Applicator Exam Study Guide.
Structural Pest Control Applicator (SPCA) License - answer✔✔Enables you to:
- Destroy, control, mitigate, or repel invertebrate pests and/or commensal rodents using a
pesticide or other means inside structures and to the exterior of buildings
- Apply a label pesticide to a building perimeter generally within 10 feet of the structure (intent
of treatment to control pests)
*doesn't permit treatments intended for the protection of landscape plants and plantings
- Apply a labeled mosquito adulticide within a building perimeter (10 ft zone adjacent to and
around the structure)
- Apply a pesticide as a spot treatment outside of the 10 ft perimeter when an insecticide
treatment is required against wasps, carpenter ants, or other pests that may harm human health or
risk damage to structure; or if the label so designates, rodenticide use against commensal rodents
Structural Pests - answer✔✔Invertebrates and commensal rodents affecting structures and
people.
Structures - answer✔✔residential homes; commercial and industrial buildings
- Vehicles: trucks rail cars, aircraft, docks
- Empty grain storage facilities and agriculture structures
- Utility structures
STATE LEAD AGENCY (SLA) - answer✔✔Body empowered to enforce pesticide regulations
in each state
SPCA Journeyman Certification - answer✔✔Entry level certification
SPCA Master Certification - answer✔✔Advanced, can be applied after 2 years with journeyman
or comparable experience
SPC Company License - answer✔✔- Must employ at least one licensed SPCA Master
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- Provide workers compensation insurance information for eligible workers
- Meet financial responsibility requirements of the Pesticide Control Law
- Paying the license application fee
- Maintaining an active license (paying the renewal fee)
Leave-behind notice - answer✔✔Must indicated the date and time that the pesticide was applied,
the name of the pest control company, and any post-application precautionary instructions for the
resident according to the product label.
Incident response plan - answer✔✔Summarizes the planned actions that should take place in the
event of an accident, pesticide spill, fire, and other disaster.
*one plan per company is sufficient if it covers all employer locations
*plans must be updated every 3 years or once the information is out of date (whichever is
earliest), reviewed with employees at least once per year and include documentation of training
events, and made available to local first responders and documented accordingly
Fumigation Endorsement - answer✔✔Permits a licensed person to use gas fumigants in and
around structures, vehicles, etc.
Category E: Turf and Ornamental - answer✔✔Allows to control pests on turf, landscape plants,
and ornamental trees on customer premises
Category I: Anti-Microbial - answer✔✔
Category J: Forestry, Rights-of-Way, and Natural Areas - answer✔✔
Category L: Mosquito and Black Fly Control - answer✔✔
Category P: Vertebrate Pest Control - answer✔✔
Sites of application allowed with SPCA license - answer✔✔
4 structures that fall within SPCA category - answer✔✔
3 categories of SPCA license and the requirements to qualify for each - answer✔✔
How to get and maintain a SPCA license in MN - answer✔✔
List and describe the license and category needed to apply pesticide and control pests that falls
outside the scope of the SPCA categories: i.e. fumigation; Categories E,I, J, L, and P -
answer✔✔
Content required on a pesticide application record - answer✔✔
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Describe the conditions that require a leave-behind notice - answer✔✔
Describe the contents of a leave-behind notice - answer✔✔
List the requirements of an Incident Response Plan - answer✔✔
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) - answer✔✔all pesticide
applicators must read and follow the directions on the label
USEPA - answer✔✔United States Environmental Protection Agency
Pesticides - answer✔✔any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing,
destroying, repelling, or migrating any pest
Repellants - answer✔✔work by causing change to their behavior and avoid or leave an area.
Insect Growth Regulators (IGRs) - answer✔✔Interfere with the development or reproduction of
the pest without having immediate toxic effects.
**These are substances that imitate the action of certain insect hormones, which govern the
insects growth and development. Usually an IGR prevents the insect pupa from ever becoming
an adult.
Restricted Use Pesticide (RUP) - answer✔✔may be highly toxic to people or the environment
there may be special handling considerations or they may be packaged in a way that an
accidental release may be posed as a severe hazard
General Use Pesticide (GUP) - answer✔✔products with a lower risk of damage or harm if a spill
or misapplication occurs
Over-The-Counter Pesticide - answer✔✔typically found in the retail market
USEPA Establishment Number (Est. No.) - answer✔✔number associated with the company and
the location of the manufacturer (formulator)
USEPA Regulation Number (Reg. No.) - answer✔✔A number assigned to the product indicating
that the label for the product has undergone review and acceptance by the USEPA
Active Ingredients (AIs) - answer✔✔chemicals that directly effect the pest
Inert or other ingredients - answer✔✔Chemicals that are not specifically formulated or claim to
directly harm the pest
Safety Data Sheet (SDS) - answer✔✔sheet that provides information on the safe use of and
hazards of chemicals, as well as emergency steps to take in the event chemicals are splashed,
Category SPCA: Structural Pest control
Applicator Exam Study Guide.
Structural Pest Control Applicator (SPCA) License - answer✔✔Enables you to:
- Destroy, control, mitigate, or repel invertebrate pests and/or commensal rodents using a
pesticide or other means inside structures and to the exterior of buildings
- Apply a label pesticide to a building perimeter generally within 10 feet of the structure (intent
of treatment to control pests)
*doesn't permit treatments intended for the protection of landscape plants and plantings
- Apply a labeled mosquito adulticide within a building perimeter (10 ft zone adjacent to and
around the structure)
- Apply a pesticide as a spot treatment outside of the 10 ft perimeter when an insecticide
treatment is required against wasps, carpenter ants, or other pests that may harm human health or
risk damage to structure; or if the label so designates, rodenticide use against commensal rodents
Structural Pests - answer✔✔Invertebrates and commensal rodents affecting structures and
people.
Structures - answer✔✔residential homes; commercial and industrial buildings
- Vehicles: trucks rail cars, aircraft, docks
- Empty grain storage facilities and agriculture structures
- Utility structures
STATE LEAD AGENCY (SLA) - answer✔✔Body empowered to enforce pesticide regulations
in each state
SPCA Journeyman Certification - answer✔✔Entry level certification
SPCA Master Certification - answer✔✔Advanced, can be applied after 2 years with journeyman
or comparable experience
SPC Company License - answer✔✔- Must employ at least one licensed SPCA Master
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- Provide workers compensation insurance information for eligible workers
- Meet financial responsibility requirements of the Pesticide Control Law
- Paying the license application fee
- Maintaining an active license (paying the renewal fee)
Leave-behind notice - answer✔✔Must indicated the date and time that the pesticide was applied,
the name of the pest control company, and any post-application precautionary instructions for the
resident according to the product label.
Incident response plan - answer✔✔Summarizes the planned actions that should take place in the
event of an accident, pesticide spill, fire, and other disaster.
*one plan per company is sufficient if it covers all employer locations
*plans must be updated every 3 years or once the information is out of date (whichever is
earliest), reviewed with employees at least once per year and include documentation of training
events, and made available to local first responders and documented accordingly
Fumigation Endorsement - answer✔✔Permits a licensed person to use gas fumigants in and
around structures, vehicles, etc.
Category E: Turf and Ornamental - answer✔✔Allows to control pests on turf, landscape plants,
and ornamental trees on customer premises
Category I: Anti-Microbial - answer✔✔
Category J: Forestry, Rights-of-Way, and Natural Areas - answer✔✔
Category L: Mosquito and Black Fly Control - answer✔✔
Category P: Vertebrate Pest Control - answer✔✔
Sites of application allowed with SPCA license - answer✔✔
4 structures that fall within SPCA category - answer✔✔
3 categories of SPCA license and the requirements to qualify for each - answer✔✔
How to get and maintain a SPCA license in MN - answer✔✔
List and describe the license and category needed to apply pesticide and control pests that falls
outside the scope of the SPCA categories: i.e. fumigation; Categories E,I, J, L, and P -
answer✔✔
Content required on a pesticide application record - answer✔✔
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Describe the conditions that require a leave-behind notice - answer✔✔
Describe the contents of a leave-behind notice - answer✔✔
List the requirements of an Incident Response Plan - answer✔✔
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) - answer✔✔all pesticide
applicators must read and follow the directions on the label
USEPA - answer✔✔United States Environmental Protection Agency
Pesticides - answer✔✔any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing,
destroying, repelling, or migrating any pest
Repellants - answer✔✔work by causing change to their behavior and avoid or leave an area.
Insect Growth Regulators (IGRs) - answer✔✔Interfere with the development or reproduction of
the pest without having immediate toxic effects.
**These are substances that imitate the action of certain insect hormones, which govern the
insects growth and development. Usually an IGR prevents the insect pupa from ever becoming
an adult.
Restricted Use Pesticide (RUP) - answer✔✔may be highly toxic to people or the environment
there may be special handling considerations or they may be packaged in a way that an
accidental release may be posed as a severe hazard
General Use Pesticide (GUP) - answer✔✔products with a lower risk of damage or harm if a spill
or misapplication occurs
Over-The-Counter Pesticide - answer✔✔typically found in the retail market
USEPA Establishment Number (Est. No.) - answer✔✔number associated with the company and
the location of the manufacturer (formulator)
USEPA Regulation Number (Reg. No.) - answer✔✔A number assigned to the product indicating
that the label for the product has undergone review and acceptance by the USEPA
Active Ingredients (AIs) - answer✔✔chemicals that directly effect the pest
Inert or other ingredients - answer✔✔Chemicals that are not specifically formulated or claim to
directly harm the pest
Safety Data Sheet (SDS) - answer✔✔sheet that provides information on the safe use of and
hazards of chemicals, as well as emergency steps to take in the event chemicals are splashed,
