For individuals preparing to be licensed in the application of pesticides to agricultural plants, including applications performed on pastures, croplands, and non-crop agricultural lands, to control invertebrate pests, including insects, mites, slugs, snails and nematodes. 

This category does not qualify you to perform any type of fumigation. If you are looking to qualify for structural fumigation – such as fumigation in railcars, storage containers, grain storage silos, or other enclosures – you must obtain Category 303. If you are looking to qualify for soil fumigation, you must obtain Category 309A. For burrowing rodent fumigation, you must obtain Category 309B. 

For individuals preparing to be licensed in the application of pesticides to agricultural plants, including applications performed on pastures, croplands and non-crop agricultural lands, to control plant diseases.

This category does not qualify you to perform any type of fumigation. If you are looking to qualify for structural fumigation — such as fumigation in railcars, storage containers, grain storage silos, or other enclosures — you must obtain Category 303. If you are looking to qualify for soil fumigation or burrowing rodent fumigation you must obtain Category 309.  

For individuals preparing to be licensed in the application of pesticides to agricultural lands, including pastures, croplands and non-crop agricultural lands, to control weeds.  

This category does not qualify you to perform any type of fumigation. If you are looking to qualify for structural fumigation – such as fumigation in railcars, storage containers, grain storage silos, or other enclosures – you must obtain Category 303. If you are looking to qualify for soil fumigation, you must obtain Category 309A. For burrowing rodent fumigation, you must obtain Category 309B. 

For individuals preparing to be licensed in the application of pesticides in forests, forest nurseries, forest seed producing areas managed for the production of timber and other forest products or maintained as wood vegetation for such indirect benefits as protection of catchment areas or public recreation, including windbreaks and downed timber.

For applications in forested areas within fifty (50) feet of a residential or commercial structure, an applicator must also hold the ornamental pest control category in accordance with Part 9 of these Rules and comply with all of the posting and notification requirements in Section 35-10-112, C.R.S., of the Pesticide Applicators’ Act.

This additional certification in the ornamental pest control category shall not apply to aerial applicators or ground applications made by federal, state, or local governments on property they own. This category does not apply to pesticide applications made to control vertebrate pests. 

For individuals preparing to be licensed in the application of pesticides to land which is not managed for turf, pasture or forest on which the vegetation is predominantly native plant species or introduced species managed as native species such as grasses, grass-like plants, forbs or shrubs. Rangelands include but are not limited to natural grasslands, shrublands, deserts, tundras, and meadows.

For applications performed in rangeland areas within fifty (50) feet of a residential or commercial structure, an applicator must also hold the turf pest control category in accordance with Part 9 of these Rules and comply with all of the posting and notification requirements in Section 35-10-112, C.R.S., of the Pesticide Applicators’ Act.

This additional certification in the turf pest control category shall not apply to aerial applicators or ground applications made by federal, state, or local governments on property they own. This category does not apply to pesticide applications made to control vertebrate pests. 

For individuals preparing to be licensed in the application of pesticides for the control of pests having medical or public health importance, except invertebrates. This category applies to non-government commercial applicators who use pesticides for the management and control of pests having public health importance. 

This guide is for obtaining licensure in both Category 110 and 110 G. 

For individuals preparing to be licensed in the application of restricted use pesticides in government-sponsored public health programs for the control of pests having medical or public health importance. 

This guide is for obtaining licensure in both Category 110 and 110 G. 

For individuals preparing to be licensed in the application of pesticides by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), fixed, or rotary wing aircraft. 

• For Qualified Supervisors and Certified Operators: This category must be held in addition to the Pest Management Category for the aerial application being made. 
• For Private Applicators: This category must be held in addition to the Private Applicator License if making aerial applications. 

For individuals preparing to be licensed in the application of pesticides to control termites, carpenter ants, powder post beetles, fungi, and/or other wood destroying organisms in structures and/or adjacent outside areas.  

This category does not qualify you to perform any type of fumigation. If you are looking to qualify for structural fumigation – such as fumigation in railcars, storage containers, grain storage silos, or other enclosures – you must obtain Category 303. If you are looking to qualify for soil fumigation, you must obtain Category 309A. For burrowing rodent fumigation, you must obtain Category 309B. 

For individuals preparing to be licensed in the application of pesticides intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any reptile, bird, feral dogs and cats, moles, voles, bats, wild carnivores, rabbits, skunks, amphibian pests not in water and any other vertebrate pest, except rats and mice. 

This category does not qualify you to perform any type of fumigation. If you are looking to qualify for structural fumigation – such as fumigation in railcars, storage containers, grain storage silos, or other enclosures – you must obtain Category 303. If you are looking to qualify for soil fumigation, you must obtain Category 309A. For burrowing rodent fumigation, you must obtain Category 309B. 

For individuals preparing to be licensed in the application of a fumigant to one or more rooms in a structure or to the entire structure at a desired concentration and for a length of time necessary for the control of rodents and/or insect pests, including the application of a fumigant to a localized space or harborage within a structure, including but not limited to railcars, storage containers, grain storage silos or other enclosures, including tarpaulin fumigations, for insect and/or rodent control. This category is required for the use of a fumigant in any licensure category authorized by Title 35, Article 10, when the application of the fumigant is made to or in a structure as defined in Part 1.02(m). 

• For Private Applicators: This category must be held in addition to the Private Applicator License if making Structural Fumigation applications.
  

The exam will NOT cover chapters 7.3 and 7.7 in the Non-Soil Fumigation guide as they are covered by other categories. 

Information contained in both the Structural Fumigation and the Non-Soil Fumigation is needed to obtain this category. This category does not qualify you for soil or burrow fumigation (see Category 309A and Category 309B) or sewer root control (see Category 113). 

For individuals preparing to be licensed in the application of pesticides for the treatment of pests in raw grain stored in facilities which are not used for animal or human habitation; the application of plant growth regulators to agricultural commodities stored in facilities which are not used for animal or human habitation; and the application of pesticides to commodity processing equipment or commodity storage facilities (not including offices or other structures). This category does not cover applications made to control pests in potato storage facilities covered by Category 308. 

This category no longer qualifies you to perform any type of fumigation. If you are looking to qualify for structural fumigation – such as fumigation of railcars, storage containers, grain storage silos, or other enclosures – you must obtain Category 303. If you are looking to qualify for soil fumigation, you must obtain Category 309A. For burrowing rodent fumigation, you must obtain Category 309B. 

For individuals preparing to be licensed in the use of a fumigant to control pests in soil. 

• For Qualified Supervisors and Certified Operators: This category must be held in addition to the Agricultural Pest Management Category for the fumigation application being made.   
• For Private Applicators: This category must be held in addition to the Private Applicator License if making Soil Fumigation applications.
  

This category does not allow application of fumigants to control pests in structures as described in Category 303: Structural Fumigation Pest Control, or to control pests in non-soil sites, such as burrowing, rodent control, described in Category 309B: Non-Soil Fumigation Pest Control. 

For individuals preparing to be licensed in the use of a fumigant to control pests in non-soil sites, such as burrowing rodent control, not otherwise addressed in Category 303, Structural Fumigation Pest Control.   

• For Qualified Supervisors and Certified Operators: This category must be held in addition to the Structural Pest Management category for the fumigation application being made. 
• For Private Applicators: This category must be held in addition to the Private Applicator License if making Non-Soil Fumigation applications.
  

The exam will ONLY cover content from Chapters 1-6 and 7.3. 

This category does not allow application of fumigants to control pests in structures as described in Category 303: Structural Fumigation Pest Control, or to control pests in soil as described in Category 309A: Soil Fumigation Pest Control. 

For individuals preparing to be licensed in order to use or supervise the use of a restricted-use pesticide for the purpose of producing an agricultural commodity on property owned or leased by the applicator or the applicator’s employer or, if the pesticide is applied without compensation other than trading of personal services between producers of agricultural commodities, on the property of another person must be a licensed private applicator.  

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