All Courses

  • Maximizing Product Power for Lawn and Ornamental Pest Control

    Learn to maximizing product power by mastering core principals such as pest identification, using correct dosages, ensuring products reach the target pest, better application, and an understanding of resistance.

  • Basics of Structural Fumigation

    Learn which government agency is responsible for federal laws pertaining to pesticides and become familiar with state laws pertaining to pesticides. Topics include; information about the process for applying to take a pest control operator (PCO) exam, the special identification (ID) card for structural fumigation, and the process for renewal of a PCO certificate and special ID card.

  • Water Quality and Pesticides

    Explore water quality factors and their effect on pesticide performance, including measuring and understanding water quality parameters and how to adjust them to make the water more suitable for applying pesticide.

  • Public Health Pest Control

    Understand the impacts a successful vector control program have had on this state and learn how Florida’s important insect and arthropod vectors are classified. Topics include, the three general types of transmission involved in vector-host relationships, the diseases that are vectored by mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas; and identifying the common mosquitoes and ticks of Florida.

  • Worker Protection Standard Train the Trainer

  • PICE001 The Value of Pesticides in Agricultural Crops in Florida

    This module is based on data presented by the Crop Life Foundation during the Florida Fertilizer and Agrichemical Association’s 2006 annual winter meeting. The cost/benefit of pesticides to many major agricultural commodities is discussed and presented using Florida agricultural commodities.

  • PICE002 Understanding Agricultural Pesticide Applicator Licenses Under FDACS

    Florida pesticide laws, including those pertaining to licensed applicators, can be confusing. This module explains the certification and licensing process that is relevant to agricultural categories, which are governed by Florida Pesticide Law, Chapter 487.

  • PICE029 Calibration and Calculations Made Easy for Turfgrass Applicators

    Completion of this program will qualify you to receive one continuing education unit toward your recertification requirements. The program is approved only for those who are certified and licensed in Florida. This particular tutorial will discuss calibration and calculations for turfgrass applicators.

  • PICE034 Aquatic Pest Control 2

    This particular tutorial will discuss herbicides and their use in the aquatic environment. After taking this CEU module, pesticide applicators should be able to define herbicides; understand the process of herbicide registration; describe ways that herbicides are classified; describe foliar absorption by plants; define herbicide mode of action; define selectivity; describe factors that affect aquatic herbicide activity and selectivity; and describe the characteristics of herbicides used in Florida’s aquatic environments.

  • PICE035 Understanding Pesticide Resistance

    Learn more about pesticide resistance, including the difference between resistance and tolerance, cross and multiple resistance, the pesticide treadmill, how pest populations develop pesticide resistance, and methods of preventing or slowing down development of resistance.

  • PICE036 Arthropod Pests of Vegetable Crops

    This particular tutorial will discuss arthropod pests of vegetable crops, including identification, life cycles, and beneficial species.

  • PICE037 Stored Product Pests

    This tutorial will discuss problems and pests commonly associated with storing products in Florida.

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