Safety Dance: Pesticide Safety Part 3

We will look at Pheromones and Stored Product Pests

We will look at the spiders - there are 8 species you are responsible to be familar with and we will look at what you need to know about them.

Listener inspired bonus episode on the IRAC (The Insecticide Resistance Action Committee) and their free website and app.  https://irac-online.org/

Rewind on the important cockroaches and monitoring especially when it comes to cockroaches. 

Its a review session of ants and flies. We will talk about key species to know and if you have already studied these groups... then it's all a rewind for you!

Lets go back and make sure you know your chemical classes and examples!

While this domain does not have its own chapter in the ACE study guide, we will discuss what is included. The good news is you have studied 85% of it already!

Last segment of the three part series on safety deals with spills, first aid and all the agencies and laws you need to review. This episode probably requires addtional listens!

This is all above Personal Protective Equipment or "PPE". We will also talk about Storage and Transportation when dealing with Pesticides. Here is the link for the EPA glove categories: https://oeh.cals.cornell.edu/sites/oeh.cals.cornell.edu/files/shared/documents/pesticides/EPAChemRes.pdf

This section deals with toxicity, the label and sds.