As a pest control company, we want to make sure everyone is properly trained and licensed to properly and safely perform treatments. The way the current Category 8 certification is structured makes it unnecessarily difficult for companies and technicians who want to comply with the licensing. The exam focusses too much on area-wide treatments that are performed by government and agricultural applicators. I would encourage supporting the VPMA petition to have a separate exam with relevant questions for pest control technicians performing backyard and similar mosquito control treatments. This would help improve residential vector control and ensure that technicians know content relevant to their job duties. 

Thank you,

Brett Lieberman
My Pest Pros