Category SPCA: Structural Pest control Applicator
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED)
Structural Pest Control Applicator (SPCA) License ✅✅ (Correct) - 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 ✅✅ (Correct) - Invertebrates and commensal rodents affecting
structures and people.
Structures ✅✅ (Correct) - 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) ✅✅ (Correct) - Body empowered to enforce pesticide
regulations in each state
,SPCA Journeyman Certification ✅✅ (Correct) - Entry level certification
SPCA Master Certification ✅✅ (Correct) - Advanced, can be applied after 2 years
with journeyman or comparable experience
SPC Company License ✅✅ (Correct) - - Must employ at least one licensed SPCA
Master
- 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 ✅✅ (Correct) - 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 ✅✅ (Correct) - 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*plans must be updated every 3 years or once the information is out of date (whichever is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 ✅✅ (Correct) - Permits a licensed person to use gas
fumigants in and around structures, vehicles, etc.
,Category E: Turf and Ornamental ✅✅ (Correct) - Allows to control pests on turf,
landscape plants, and ornamental trees on customer premises
Category I: Anti-Microbial ✅✅ (Correct) -
Category J: Forestry, Rights-of-Way, and Natural Areas ✅✅ (Correct) -
Category L: Mosquito and Black Fly Control ✅✅ (Correct) -
Category P: Vertebrate Pest Control ✅✅ (Correct) -
Sites of application allowed with SPCA license ✅✅ (Correct) -
4 structures that fall within SPCA category ✅✅ (Correct) -
3 categories of SPCA license and the requirements to qualify for each ✅✅ (Correct) -
How to get and maintain a SPCA license in MN ✅✅ (Correct) -
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 ✅✅ (Correct) -
Content required on a pesticide application record ✅✅ (Correct) -
, Describe the conditions that require a leave-behind notice ✅✅ (Correct) -
Describe the contents of a leave-behind notice ✅✅ (Correct) -
List the requirements of an Incident Response Plan ✅✅ (Correct) -
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) ✅✅ (Correct) - all
pesticide applicators must read and follow the directions on the label
USEPA ✅✅ (Correct) - United States Environmental Protection Agency
Pesticides ✅✅ (Correct) - any substance or mixture of substances intended for
preventing, destroying, repelling, or migrating any pest
Repellants ✅✅ (Correct) - work by causing change to their behavior and avoid or
leave an area.
Insect Growth Regulators (IGRs) ✅✅ (Correct) - 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.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED)
Structural Pest Control Applicator (SPCA) License ✅✅ (Correct) - 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 ✅✅ (Correct) - Invertebrates and commensal rodents affecting
structures and people.
Structures ✅✅ (Correct) - 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) ✅✅ (Correct) - Body empowered to enforce pesticide
regulations in each state
,SPCA Journeyman Certification ✅✅ (Correct) - Entry level certification
SPCA Master Certification ✅✅ (Correct) - Advanced, can be applied after 2 years
with journeyman or comparable experience
SPC Company License ✅✅ (Correct) - - Must employ at least one licensed SPCA
Master
- 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 ✅✅ (Correct) - 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 ✅✅ (Correct) - 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 ✅✅ (Correct) - Permits a licensed person to use gas
fumigants in and around structures, vehicles, etc.
,Category E: Turf and Ornamental ✅✅ (Correct) - Allows to control pests on turf,
landscape plants, and ornamental trees on customer premises
Category I: Anti-Microbial ✅✅ (Correct) -
Category J: Forestry, Rights-of-Way, and Natural Areas ✅✅ (Correct) -
Category L: Mosquito and Black Fly Control ✅✅ (Correct) -
Category P: Vertebrate Pest Control ✅✅ (Correct) -
Sites of application allowed with SPCA license ✅✅ (Correct) -
4 structures that fall within SPCA category ✅✅ (Correct) -
3 categories of SPCA license and the requirements to qualify for each ✅✅ (Correct) -
How to get and maintain a SPCA license in MN ✅✅ (Correct) -
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 ✅✅ (Correct) -
Content required on a pesticide application record ✅✅ (Correct) -
, Describe the conditions that require a leave-behind notice ✅✅ (Correct) -
Describe the contents of a leave-behind notice ✅✅ (Correct) -
List the requirements of an Incident Response Plan ✅✅ (Correct) -
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) ✅✅ (Correct) - all
pesticide applicators must read and follow the directions on the label
USEPA ✅✅ (Correct) - United States Environmental Protection Agency
Pesticides ✅✅ (Correct) - any substance or mixture of substances intended for
preventing, destroying, repelling, or migrating any pest
Repellants ✅✅ (Correct) - work by causing change to their behavior and avoid or
leave an area.
Insect Growth Regulators (IGRs) ✅✅ (Correct) - 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.
