Certification in Illinois

Technical Categories of Licensure

Each category is designed for pesticide use requiring specific professional knowledge. A company’s entire range of pesticide use must be covered by the categories on the applicator’s license. Many applicators need multiple categories on their licenses.

*Training for these categories is offered during the training season.

*Aquatic Pest Control:

Pesticide use for weed control in standing or running water.

*Demonstration and Research:

Pesticide use during research or the teaching of pesticide and equipment use.

*Field Crop Pest Control:

Pesticide use in corn, soybeans, small grains, forages, grasslands, etc.

Forest Pest Control:

Pesticide use in forests, forests nurseries, and forest seed-producing areas.

Fruit Crop Pest Control:

Pesticide use in fruit and nut crops.

*Grain Facility Pest Control:

Pesticide use in and around grain elevators or similar grain holding facilities, conveyances, and transportation facilities.

Livestock Pest Control:

Pesticides applied to livestock or livestock barns.

*Mosquito control:

Insecticides applied to control mosquitoes.

*Ornamental Pest Control:

Pesticide use on trees, shrubs, and ornamental plantings.

*Plant Management Pest Control:

Pesticide use on portable plants used for interior landscaping and environmental enhancement.

Regulatory Pest Control:

For government employees involved in the control of regulated pests with pesticides.

*Rights-of-Way Pest Control:

Chemical weed control on non-crop sites such as parking lots, along roads, in access rights-of-way, and in fence lines.

Sewer Line Root Control:

Chemical control of roots in sewer lines.

*Seed Treatment:

Pesticide use on seeds.

Soil Fumigation:

Pesticide use for soil fumigation.

*Turf Pest Control:

Pesticide use on turf areas and sod farms.

Vegetable Crop Pest Control:

Pesticide use in vegetable crops