30 Hour Course
January 3 - 12, 2024
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30 Hour Certification Program for Categories
3A January 8 - 12, 2024, 7A January 3,4,8,11, and 12, 2024 7G January 4,5,8,11, and 12, 2024
Course Fee - $585.00 ($635.00 for on site registration)
NOTE: A Core Manual is required for 30 hour certification.
A Category Manual will also be required for the course.
Core and category manuals can be purchased through Cornell's Website.
They are NEEDED to take the certification exam!
GET THEM EARLY!
Manuals will not be available at the time of registration!!
Recertification Credits Available for
2, 3a, 3b, 6a, 7a, 7f, 7g, 8, 25
Registration Fee for those signing in for recertification credits -
$175.00 per day pre-registration ($160.00 at the door)
$85.00 half day Credit Card $182 per day pre-registration $91.00 half day
Sign In - 8:00am - 8:30am
Class - 8:30am - 4:45pm (except Friday ends at 12:00pm)
Friday, 1:00pm - 4:30pm
No Core exam and one category exam will be given by NYSDEC unless there are at least 10 people taking the course
A $100.00 EXAM FEE, payable on January 8, 2024
Checks for exam MUST be made out to "NYSDEC".
______________________________________________________________ Day 1 - January 3, 2024 Wednesday
Session 1 - 8:30am - 12:00pm
Kathy Roberts
Recertification Credits - 7a, 8 - 3.25 credits each
Bed Bug Pest Management
Biology, Behavior, Control and Prevention
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Day 1 - January 3, 2024 Wednesday
Session 2 - 1:00pm - 4:45pm
Kathy Roberts Recertification Credits - 7a - 3.50 credits 7f - 3.00 credits 8 - 2.00 credits
Rodent Control
Rats & Mice
Biology & Habits
Identification
Control Methods Fleas Facts, Life Cycle & Control IPM: Management Tactics-Inspection-Sanitation Stinging Insects Identification, Habitat, life Cycles & Control Eastern Yellowjacket, Paper Wasp, Baldfaced Hornet, European Hornet, Digger Bees, Honey Bees Spiders Identification, Life Cycle & Control Black Widow, Brown Recluse, Common House Spider, Longbodied Cellar Spider, Harvestman, Nocturnal Orb Weaving Spider _______________________________________ Day 2 - January 4, 2024 Thursday
Session 3 - 8:30am - 12:00pm
Kathy Roberts
Recertification Credits - 7a, 7f - 3.25 credits each
Stored Food Pest
Identification, Life Cycles & Control
Indian Meal Moth, Sawtoothed Grain Beetle, Cigarette and Drugstore
Beetles, Red Flour and Confused Flour Beetles, Angoumois Grain Moth
Granary and Rice Weevils, Spider Beetles, Dermestid Beetles
IPM: Management Tactics - Inspection - Sanitation - Non-Chemical
Chemical - Fumigation
Cockroaches Identification, Life Cycles & Control
American, Brownbanded, German, Oriental, Smokey Brown, Asian
IPM for Cockroaches - Inspection - Monitoring - Habitat Modification
__________________________________________________________________ Day 2 - January 4, 2024 Thursday
Session 4 - 1:00pm - 4:45pm
Kathy Roberts
Recerification Credits - 7a, 7f - 3.50 credits each
Integrated Pest Management For Flies Fly Biology - Life Stages Fly Types - House, Fruit, Phorid, Drain, Stable, Green Bottle, Cluster Habits/Behavior, Fly IPM - Survey, Source Reduction, Biological Control, Monitoring, Decision Making, Treatment Structural Ants
Facts, Identification & Control
Acrobat Ant, Ordorous Ant, Pavemant Ant, Pharaoh Ant,
Citronella Ant, Little Black Ant, Thief Ant
Occasional Invaders
Identification, Life Cycles, Control
Lady Beetles, Western Conifer Seed Bug, Boxelder Bug
Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Pest Birds In Buildings Identification, Habitat, Damage, Life Cycles & IPM Control Sparrows, Starlings, Pigeons, Other Birds
Day 3 - January 5, 2024 Friday
Kathy Roberts Recertification Credits - 7g - 6.75 credits
Cooling Water Systems Cooling Water Organisms Cooling Towers IPM Prevention and Control Selection and Application of Pesticides Evaluation of Results and Treatment Control Microbial Growth Management in Paper Mills Water Treatment Legionella Awareness
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Session 6 - 8:30am - 4:45pm
Kathy Roberts
Core - 6.75 credits
Some Basics
Don Nelson DEC
Pests
Pesticides
Formulations
Pesticide Exposure and Risks
The Toxicity of Pesticides
Protecting Yourself
Responding to a Pesticide Exposure
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Day 2 - January 9, 2024 Tuesday
Session 7 - 8:30am - 12:00pm
Kathy Roberts
Recertification Credits -3a, 3b, 25 - 3.25 credits each
Weed Identification and Control
Identification of Broadleaf and
Grassy Weeds Broadleaf
Weeds versus Grassy Weeds Life Cycles, Annual Bluegrass, Black Medic, Broadleaf Plaintain, Chickweed, Dandelion, Field Bindweed, Ground Ivy, Smooth Crabgrass, Large Crabgrass, Poison Ivy, Yellow Foxtail, Nutsedges, Silver Crabgrass, Nimblewill, Creeping Bentgrass, Orchardgrass, Quackgrass, Tall Fescue Turfgrass Diseases Diagnosis, Control Anthracnose Foliar Blight, Brown Patch, Damping-off Diseases, Dollar Spot, Fairy Ring, Gray Snow Mold, Leaf Spot and Melting-Out Diseases, Necrotic Ring Spot, Pink Snow Mold, Fusarium Patch, Powdery Mildew, Pythium Blight, Red Thread and Pink Patch, Rust, Slime Molds, Summer Patch, Take-All Patch, Yellow Patch
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Day 2 - January 9, 2024 Tuesday
Session 8 - 1:00pm - 4:45pm
Kathy Roberts
Recertification Credits - 3a, 25 - credits each
Integrated Pest Management
Definition of IPM, Principles of IPM, Pest Thresholds, Growing Degree Days,
Plant Phenological Indicators, Economic Considerations, Management,
Making Decisions, Movement Towards Biological Control
Care of Turfgrass
Turfgrass Disorders - Pest and Non-Pest, Requirements for Healthy Turf,
Soil Texture, Nutrients, Establishing Turf and Maintaining It Turfgrass Pest Identification, Damage, Control Root Feeders - May/June Beetles, Northern Masked Chafers, Black
Turfgrass Ataenius, Green June Beetles, Japanese Beetles, False
Japanese Beetles, Oriental Beetles, Bluegrass Billbugs
Blade Defoliators - Sod Webworm, Cutworms, Armyworms, Fall
Armyworms Blade Sucking - Leafhoppers, Aphids Non Damaging Lawn Pest - Chinch Bugs, False Chinch Bugs, Earthworms
_________________________________________________________________ Day 3 - January 10, 2024 Wednesday
Session 9 - 8:30am - 12:00pm
Kathy Roberts
Recertification Credits- 2, 6a, 25 - credit each 3a, credits each
Ornamental Insect Pest
Identification, Damage, Control Aphids, Asian Longhorned Beetles,Bees and Wasps, Birch Leafminer, Bronze Birch Borers, Black Vine Weevil, Eastern Tent Caterpillars, Forest Tent Caterpillars, Pine Sawflies, Introduced Pine Sawflies, Redheaded Pine Sawflies, White Pine Weevil, Emerald Ash Borers Scale Insects - Oystershell Scale, Pine Needle Scale Euonymus Scale, Fletcher Scale, Pine Tortoise Scale, Cottony Maple Scale, Cottony Maple Leaf Scale, Oak Kermes, Elongate Hemlock Scale, Hemlock Scale Spider Mites - Twospotted Spider Mites, Spruce Spider Mites, Cooley Spruce Adelgids, Eastern Spruce Gall Adelgids
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Day 3 - January 10, 2024 Wednesday Session 10 - 1:00pm - 4:45pm Kathy Roberts Recertification Credits - 3a, 25 - credits each 2, 6a - credits each
3b - credits Identification, Life Cycle & Control
Spotted Lanternfly, Box Tree Moth, Elm Zigzag Sawfly, Beech Leaf Disease, European Gypsy Moth Ornamental Pest Diseases Identification, Life Cycle, Control Apple Scab, Gymnosporangium Rust, Cedar Rust Diseases, Powdery Mildews, Sooty Molds, Anthracnose Diseases, Tar Spot, Vascular Wilts, Dutch Elm Disease, Bacterial Leaf Scorch, Ash Yellows, Root Rot of Rhododendron, Boxwood Blight Environmental Factors Favoring Disease -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day 4 - January 11, 2024 Thursday
Session 11 - 8:30am - 4:45pm
Kathy Roberts
Core - 6.75 credits
Heat Stress Fate of Pesticides in the Environment Pesticides and Water Pesticide Resistance Principles of Pest Management Federal Pesticide Laws and Regulations Pesticide Residue and Tolerance State Laws and Regulations Storing Pesticides Transporting Pesticides Pesticide Security Emergency Planning and Response Application Methods and Equipment Pesticide Drift Application Safety --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Day 5 - January 12, 2024 Friday
Session 12 - 8:30am - 12:00pm
Kathy Roberts
Core - 2.75 credits
Equipment Calibration Calculations for Mixing and Loading Pesticides Mixing and Loading Managing Pesticide Wastes The Pesticide Label Professional Conduct and Liability - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Day 5 - January 12, 2024 Friday
1:00pm Certification Exam - NYS DEC
Note: $100.00 Exam Fee Payable To:
NYSDEC
Due Monday, January 8, 2024
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