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How do I decide which Exterminator Licence Category I need under Ontario's New Pesticide Licensing System?


There are three types of exterminator licences: Land, Structural and Water. Within these three types, there are 12 Licence Categories -- each a defined pest management activity, plus 3 limited licence categories under fumigation. The certification you need depends on the type of pest management activity you will do. The following will help you decide which licence category you need:

Land

Structural

Water

 
 
Land Exterminator Licences
 

 
Landscape Licence
 
The Landscape Licence allows the use of pesticides in a land extermination on residential, recreational, commercial and public lands to:
  • maintain turf and ornamental plantings;
  • maintain ornamental plants intended for sale;
  • control pests on the outside of structures or buildings in connection with landscape management (e.g., spiders, earwigs);
  • control pests in treed areas of less than one hectare;
  • maintain parking lots, driveways, pathways or easements associated with the residential, recreational, commercial or public land as long as the rights of way or other easements can be reached from the property without crossing a public road.
The Licence excludes:
  • the use of fumigant gases;
  • the use of pesticides in a water extermination;
  • the aerial application of pesticides;
  • the use of pesticides on rights-of-ways of controlled access highways, roads, rail lines, hydro power lines or pipe lines;
  • the use of pesticides in treed areas of more than one hectare.
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Forestry Licence
 
The Forestry Licence allows:
  • the use of pesticides in a land extermination for forest management and the growing and maintenance of trees.
The Licence excludes:
  • the use of fumigant gases;
  • the aerial application of pesticides.
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Industrial Vegetation Licence
 
The Industrial Vegetation Licence allows:
  • the use of herbicides in a land extermination to control vegetation on rights-of-way, roadsides, utility easements and other areas that give access to works or equipment and to control roots in sewer systems;
  • the use of insecticides and fungicides on in-ground wood poles.
The Licence excludes:
  • the use of fumigant gases;
  • the aerial application of pesticides.
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Agriculture Licence
 
The Agriculture Licence allows:
  • the use of pesticides in a land extermination to control pests associated with agricultural crops (including nursery production, Christmas tree and sod farms);
  • the use of pesticides in a land extermination to control pests associated with the raising of livestock and poultry (including animals housed inside farm structures);
  • the use of phosphine gas to control groundhogs.
The Licence excludes:
  • all other uses of fumigant gases;
  • the use of pesticides in greenhouses;
  • the aerial application of pesticides.
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Aerial Licence
 
The Aerial Licence allows:
  • the use of pesticides for a land or water exterminations when applied by airborne machines.
The Licence excludes:
  • the use of fumigant gases.
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Structural Exterminator Licences
 

 
Structural Licence
 
The Structural Licence allows:
  • the use of pesticides to control pests in or around structures
The Licence excludes:
  • the use of herbicides, fumigant gases, chloropicrin and termiticides
  • the use of pesticides to control pests of plants growing inside greenhouses and other buildings or structures.
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Greenhouse/Interior Plant Licence
 
The Greenhouse/Interior Plant Licence allows the use of pesticides:
  • to control pests of plants growing inside greenhouses and other buildings or structures;
  • immediately surrounding greenhouses, buildings or structures when pests may affect the plants growing inside.
The Licence excludes:
  • the use of fumigant gases.
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Termite Licence
 
The Termite Licence allows the use of insecticides to:
  • prevent and control termites.
The Licence excludes:
  • the use of insecticides to control other wood-destroying insects
  • the use of fumigant gases.
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 Fumigation-General Licence
 
The Fumigation-General Licence allows the use of fumigant gases and chloropicrin to control pests:
  • within structures or other enclosed spaces (including vaults, greenhouses, vehicles, farm buildings, silos, bins, etc.);
  • associated with soil fumigation under a covering that suppresses the release of gas;

         and allows use of phosphine gas to control groundhogs.
  

The Licence excludes:
  • the use of pesticides other than fumigant gases and chloropicrin.
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Fumigation-Commodity Limited Licence
 
The Fumigation-Commodity Limited Licence allows:
  • the use of phosphine gas in a structural extermination to control pests in commodities that are in a silo, bin, vehicle, or other form of sealed and secured container (including a non-vacuum vault) or under a covering that suppresses the release of gas
  • the use of Schedule 2, 3, 4 and 6 insecticides for pests associated with these commodities.
The Licence excludes:
  • the use of other fumigant gases
  • the use of rodenticides.
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Fumigation-Vault Limited Licence
 
The Fumigation-Vault Limited Licence allows:
  • the use of methyl bromide, ethylene oxide and carbon dioxide as described in the Regulation.
The Licence excludes:
  • the use of phosphine gas.
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Fumigation-Soil Limited Licence
 
The Fumigation-Soil Limited Licence allows:
  • the use of fumigant gases and/or methyl bromide chloropicrin mixtures under a covering that suppresses the release of gas to control pests in soil, greenhouse soil beds and nursery soils.
The Licence excludes:
  • the use of pesticides other than fumigant gases and/or methyl bromide chloropicrin mixtures for soil fumigation.
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Aquatic Exterminator Licences
 

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Aquatic Vegetation Licence
 
The Aquatic Vegetation Licence allows:
  • the use of herbicides in a water extermination to control aquatic vegetation.
The Licence excludes:
  • the aerial application of herbicides.
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Mosquito/Biting Flies Licence
 
The Mosquito/Biting Flies Licence allows:
  • the use of insecticides in a water extermination to control mosquito, black fly or other biting fly aquatic stages;
  • the use of insecticides in a land extermination to control adult stages of mosquitoes, black flies and other biting fly populations.
The Licence excludes:
  • the use of insecticides to control biting flies on livestock;
  • aerial application of insecticides.
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Fish/Mollusc Licence
 
The Fish/Mollusc Licence allows:
  • the use of pesticides in a water extermination to control fish (including sea lamprey), molluscs and pests affecting fish.
The Licence excludes:
  • the aerial application of pesticides.

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