General Pest Management

June 15, 2012

Publication information

General pest manual

  • MSU manual number: E-2048
  • Prepared by: MSU Pesticide Safety Education Program
  • Prepares you for: Michigan Category 7A exam on structural pest management
  • Date New: October 1998
  • Size: 232 pages, print copy; PDF format - 8.32 Mb
  • Cost & availability: $25.50 or free online. Printed copies can be purchased from the National Pesticide Safety Education Center. The complete text of this manual is also available in a PDF format at no charge by accessing the chapters shown below. Note that the printed manual includes color photographs not found in the PDF version.

General Pest Management, Category 7A, A Guide for Commercial Applicators

  • SECTION ONE GENERAL PEST MANAGEMENT INFORMATION 
    • Chapter 1 Legalities of General Pest Management
    • Chapter 2 Using Equipment in General Pest Management
    • Chapter 3 Pest Management and Control
    • Chapter 4 Pest Management in Food-handling and Other Specialized Facilities
  • SECTION TWO STRUCTURE-INFESTING PESTS 2.5 Mb
    • Chapter 5 Insects and Their Relatives 171 Kb
    • Chapter 6 Cockroaches 806 Kb
    • Chapter 7 Ants 427 Kb
    • Chapter 8 Stored-product and Fabric Pests 885 Kb
    • Chapter 9 Silverfish and Firebrats 173 Kb
    • Chapter 10 Fleas 202 Kb
  • SECTION THREE INVADING PESTS 2.2 Mb
    • Chapter 11 Houseflies and Their Relatives 430 Kb
    • Chapter 12 Stinging Pests 1,030 Kb
    • Chapter 13 Spiders 399 Kb
    • Chapter 14 Ticks, Mites, Bedbugs and Lice 431 Kb
    • Chapter 15 Miscellaneous Invaders 729 Kb
  • SECTION FOUR RODENTS AND OTHER VERTEBRATE PESTS 1.7 Mb
    • Chapter 16 Rats 574 Kb
    • Chapter 17 House Mice 183 Kb
    • Chapter 18 Birds 309 Kb
    • Chapter 19 Other Vertebrate Pests 621 Kb
  • APPENDICES 3.0 Mb
    • Appendix A Answers to Review Questions 41 Kb
    • Appendix B Glossary 80 Kb
    • Appendix C Pesticides Used in Structural Pest Management 49 Kb
    • Appendix D Convenient Conversion Factors 502 Kb
    • Appendix E Selected Bibliography 502 Kb
    • Appendix F Common Structure-infesting, Invading, and Vertebrate Pests (not included in online version)

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