Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PAPLANTS) Online Pesticide License Courses and Credits

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**Each Credit Requires 30 Minutes of Training within the Course (2 Credits = 1 Hour) - Take Breaks as Needed

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**All Courses below are for Pesticide License Holders


Aedes aegypti Mosquito - 4 Credits - Categories 16,18,23

Topics include life cycle, habitat, control, vector management, distribution, vaccinations, history, description, research, videos, and medical importance.

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Aeration in Aquatic Environments - 4 Credits - Categories - Private, 9, 18

Topics include types of aeration, linear, blowers, practices, videos, diffusers, basics of aeration, and flow.

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Aquatic Floating Weeds - 4 Credits - Categories - Private, 9, 18, 23

This course includes discussion in regard to various aquatic floating weeds, invasive species, control methods, habitat, management, identification, and helpful hints.

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Aquatic Submerged Weeds - 4 Credits - Categories - Private,9,18

Topics include submerged aquatic weeds, descriptions, ecological effects, control measures, timing of treatments, products, and invasive species.

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Aquatic Weed Management - 4 Credits- Categories - Private, 9, 18, 23

Topics include necessary weed control, water usage, weed identification, large impoundments, managing aquatic weeds, herbicides, waterways, environmental effects, and faulty applications.

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Bed Bugs - 4 Credits - Categories - 11,16,18,23

Topics include history, background, description, life cycle, habit, feeding, reproduction, origin, management, treatment, society and culture, mechanical, biological, and chemical control, videos, and feeding.

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Beneficial Aquatic Plants - 4 Credits - Categories - Private, 9, 18, 23

Topics include types, benefits, uses, background, healthy ponds, names, adding plants to ponds, and ecology. Quantity:

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Bent grass - 4 Credits - Categories - Private, 7, 18, 23

Topics include usage, care, maintenance, growth regulators, breeding, cultural practices, physiology, heat stress, diseases, thatch, insects, shade, winter kill, and desiccation.

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Bird Control & Techniques - 4 Credits - Categories - 4, 11, 15, 18, 23

Topics include bird control and techniques, spiking, chemical options, trapping, netting, methods, scarers, reducing attractiveness, reducing reproduction, non-lethal control, and exclusion.

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Carpenter Ants - 2 Credits - Category 12,18,23

Topics include history, life cycle, control, prevention, detection, videos, and description.

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Category Private & Core Bundle - 12 Credits - Categories - Private & Core

This course provides full re-certification in categories Private and Core. Course topics include pesticide safety, pesticides and bees, invasive species, and weed ID and herbicides.

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Cockroaches - 4 Credits - Category 11,18,23

Topics include life cycle, history, control, videos, parasitic wasps, behavior, and management.

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Commercial Fumigation - 4 Credits - Category 13

Topics include what is a fumigant, how they work, safety, types, aeration, and videos.

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Commercial Fumigation II - 2 Credits - Categories - 20, 21

Topics include what is a fumigant, how they work, safety, types, aeration, and videos.

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Contractor Safety - 4 Credits - Category - Core

Topics include core benefits, worker participation, communication, safety and health programs, implementation, and monitoring and analysis.

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Cooling Tower Applications - 4 Credits - Categories 9, 18

Topics include scale, biological contamination, control, properties of water, effects on cooling systems, chemicals, hardness, pH, alkalinity, conductivity, and proper treatment and monitoring.

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Core Bundle - 6 CEU's - Category Core

This course provides full re-certification in Core. Courses include Pesticide Safety, Pesticides in the Environment, and Respirators. Each of these courses is one hour and 2 credits.

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Darkling Beetles - 2 Credits - Categories - Private,11

Topics include biology, life cycle, management, control, poultry, IPM, and videos.

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Darkling Beetles II - 4 Credits - Category 4, 18

Topics include biology, life cycle, management, control, poultry, IPM, and videos.

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Equipment Calibration - 4 Credits - Category - Core

Course topics include improper calibration, drop and rotary spreaders, boom sprayers, nozzles, videos, agitation, amount of product and solution.

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Fumigation - 4 Credits - Categories 13, 18, 20, 21

Topics include what is a fumigant, how they work, safety, types, aeration, and videos.

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Fungicides - 4 Credits - Category - Private, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 18, 22, 23

Topics include Frac Code, uses, videos, description, history, examples, and labels.

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Imported Fire Ant - 4 Credits - Categories 11, 16, 18, 23

Course topics include tunneling, socialization, new colony formation, feeding, ecology, distribution, videos, control, and habitat.

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Industrial, Institutional & Health Related Pest Control - 1 Credit - Categories - 15,16

Topics include industrial and institutional pest control, cockroaches, insects, rats, safety, sanitation, exclusion, and videos.

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Industrial, Institutional & Health Related Pest Control - 2 Credits - Categories - 11,18,23

Topics include industrial and institutional pest control, cockroaches, insects, rats, safety, sanitation, exclusion, and videos.

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Insecticides - 4 Credits - Category - Private,4,11,18,23

Course topics include ready to use sprays, aerosol sprays, baits, dusts, concentrates, foggers, and videos.

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Insects - 4 Credits - Categories - 11,16,18,23

Course topics include insects, spiders, and videos.

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Insects of Turf grasses - 4 Credits - Categories - Private, 07, 18, 23

Course topics include beneficial organisms, species, mouthparts, seasonality, and videos.

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Invasive Species - 4 Credits - Categories - Private, 5, 10, 18, 23

Topics include noxious weeds, invasive species, government roles and regulations, Invasive Species Councils, examples, regions, and environmental and economic impacts.

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Landscape Ornamentals - 2 Credits - Categories 6,18,23

Course topics include care, fertilization, watering, establishment, planting, videos, and pruning.

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Managing Household Pests - 2 Credits - Categories 11,18, 23

Course topics include exclusion, identification, sanitation, biology, videos, and treatment.

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Mosquitoes & Chikungunya - 2 Credits - Categories 16,18

Topics include Aedes mosquitoes, history, vaccines, symptoms, signs, prevention, what to know, geographic distribution, developing countries, and developing countries.

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Mosquitoes & Diseases - 6 Credits - Category 11,16,18,23

Topics include videos, prevention, eradication, history, background, control, symptoms, vaccinations, medicines, and parasites.

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Mosquitoes - 4 Credits - Categories - 11,16,18,23

Course topics include habitat, species, videos, biology, control, saliva, and body parts.

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Nematodes - 6 Credits - Categories - Private, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 18, 22, 23

Topics include description, biology, habitat, life cycle, beneficial nematodes, videos, anatomy, digestive system, types, bacteria, feeding, and modes of action.

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Pesticide Laws - 2 Credits - Category - Core

Course topics include regulations, classification, labeling, formulation, transportation, storage, mixing, application, equipment, videos, and maintenance.

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Pesticide Record Keeping - 2 Credits - Category - Core

Course topics include requirements, records, total amount, size, site, timing, name of applicator, civil penalties, benefits, WPS, and videos.

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Pesticide Safety - 2 Credits - Category - Core

Course topics include description, effects, safety, videos, spills, response, PPE, toxicity, first-aid, stewardship.

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Pesticides & Bees - 4 Credits - Category - Core

Topics include Colony Collapse Disorder, apiary location, drift, environmental effects, videos, honeybees, signs, symptoms, growers, applicators, and keepers.

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Pesticides in the Environment - 2 Credits - Category - Core

Course topics include pesticide, air, water, soil, plants, birds, plants, animals, aquatic life, videos, humans, pollutants, and resistance.

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POULTRY IPM - 2 Credits - Categories - Core,Private,4,18

Topics include restricted pesticides, rinsing containers, controlling fleas, fly biology, cultural, mechanical, biological, and chemical control, rodents, videos, Darkling Beetles, larval sampling, fogging, spraying, atomizing, heat, durashield and permethrin.

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Powderpost Beetles - 4 Credits - Categories - 12, 18

Topics include life history, life cycle, management, control, habits and types, heat treatments, and insecticides.

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Public Health Pest Management - 1 Credits - Categories - Core & 15

Topics include arthropods, vertebrate pests, inspection, diagnosis, prescription, videos, evaluation, ticks, spiders, reservoir hosts, and transmission.

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Public Health Pest Management - 4 Credits - Category - 16

Topics include arthropods, vertebrate pests, inspection, diagnosis, prescription, videos, evaluation, ticks, spiders, reservoir hosts, and transmission.

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Public Health Pest Management - 5 Credits - Category 11,18,23

Topics include arthropods, vertebrate pests, inspection, diagnosis, prescription, videos, evaluation, ticks, spiders, reservoir hosts, and transmission.

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Rats - 4 Credits - Category 4,11,15,18,23

Topics include species, types, habitat, biology, food, cultures, control, and videos.

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Respirators - 2 Credits - Category - Core

Course topics include description, NIOSH, types, color-coding, replacement, inspection, proper use, maintenance, and videos.

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Right of Way Applications - 4 Credits - Categories 10,18,23

Topics include weed characteristics, control methods, types of control, herbicides and their characteristics, and Integrated Vegetation Management.

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Right-of-Way Weed Control - 4 Credits - Categories 10,18,23

Topics include road shoulders, ditches, drains, road crossings, herbicide injections, basal and foliar treatment, storage yards, railroads, chemical side trimming, and selective and non-selective vegetation management.

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Seed Treatment - 4 Credits - Categories 8,18

Topics include description, growth regulators, fungicidal, anti-microbial, chemical, insecticides, agriculture, benefits and risks, advantages and disadvantages, IPM, protection, purpose, videos, neonicotinoids, and plant health.

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Sewer Root Control - 4 Credits - Categories 18,26

Topics include foaming techniques, effectiveness, sewer treatment, root control, treatment plants, environmental concerns, building laterals, dilution, flow, slope and grade, metam-sodium, dichlobenil, chemical and mechanical control, factors, and methods.

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Soils & Sewer Root Control - 4 Credits - Categories 18,26

Topics include foaming techniques, effectiveness, sewer treatment, root control, treatment plants, environmental concerns, building laterals, dilution, flow, slope and grade, metam-sodium, dichlobenil, chemical and mechanical control, factors, and methods.

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Soils, Nutrients, & IPM - 2 Credits - Category - 1,2,3,5,6,7,10,22,23,25

This course is 2 credits, and topics include soil composition, physical properties, chemical make-up, nutrient analysis, videos, and IPM.

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Spiders - 4 Credits - Categories - 11,16,18,23

Course topics include webs, biology, feeding, videos, body structure, circulation and respiratory, feeding, digestion & excretion, CNS, locomotion, ecology, prey, family tree, and humans.

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Structural Fumigation - 4 Credits - Category 13

This program discusses topics associated with fumigants, treatments, needs assessments, quarantine compliance, advantages, disadvantages, chemical and physical characteristics, volatility, types, pests, target organisms, and chemicals.

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Structural Fumigation II - Categories - 20, 21

This program discusses topics associated with fumigants, treatments, needs assessments, quarantine compliance, advantages, disadvantages, chemical and physical characteristics, volatility, types, pests, target organisms, and chemicals.

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Termites - 4 Credits - Category 12,18,23

Topics include social behavior, mounds, tunneling, fungi garden, videos, hierarchy, queen, workers, and temperature control.

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Turf grass Culture - 2 Credits - Categories - Private, 07, 18, 23

Course topics include mowing, frequency, directional, vertical recycling, irrigation, thatch, aeration, liming, and videos.

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Turf grass Diseases - 4 Credits - Categories Private, 07,18, 23

Course topics include diseases, hosts, symptoms, life cycle, management, and videos.

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Turf grass Identification - 2 Credits - Categories - Private, 07, 18, 23

Course topics include plant identificatio. parts of a grass plant, reference charts, classification, and supplemental video.

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Turf Problems - 2 Credits - Categories Private, 07, 18, 23

Course topics include scalping, drought, pet issues, salt damage, fuel spills, compaction, videos, diagnosis, and resolution.

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Turfgrass Species - 4 Credits - Category - Private, 07, 18, 23

Course topics include warm and cool season grasses, adaptation, use, culture, wear tolerance, nitrogen requirement, and videos.

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Using Insecticides in Buildings - 2 Credits - Category - 11,18,23

Course topics include choosing and purchasing insecticides, sanitation, locations, remedies, treatment, equipment, and videos.

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Vertebrate Pests I - 2 Credits - Categories - 11,15,18,23

Topics include rodents, rats, mice, sanitation, exclusion, control, management, safety, dusts, trackers, baits, stations, precautionary measures, videos, anti-coagulants, and fumigants.

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Weed ID & Herbicides - 2 Credits - Categories - Private, 07, 18, 23

Course topics include weed ID, herbicides, systemic, contact, pre-emergence, post-emergence, and videos.

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West Nile Virus - 4 Credits - Category - 11,16,18,23

Topics include prevention, videos, risk, research, history, symptoms, signs, mosquitoes.

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Wood Destroying Organisms - 4 Credits - Category 12,18

Topics include termites, borers, videos, equipment, dry-wood, damp-wood, inspection, types, and control.

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Wood Preservative Chemicals - 4 Credits - Categories 18,19

Topics include borates, pentachlorophenol, CCA, copper azole, napthalene, new technology, water-borne, oil-borne, methods, and environmental concerns.

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Wood Treatment - 4 Credits - Categories 18, 19

Topics include introduction, history, hazards, chemical preservatives, AWPA, videos, types, and methods.

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Worker Protection Standard - 2 Credits - Category - Core

This course covers safety, re-entry intervals, regulations, wps, PPE, and EPA.

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Zika Virus - 4 Credits - Categories 16,18,23

Topics include transmission, history, treatment, prevention, virology, symptoms, signs, biology, and risks.

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