Category 7b includes: commercial applicators (for hire, not for hire, and government employees) and businesses using pesticides (insecticides, termiticides, fungicides, etc.) in or around structures to control or prevent wood destroying pests such as termites, wood boring beetles, carpenter ants, carpenter bees, and wood decay fungus. It includes individuals who, in addition to using pesticides, may also do real estate inspections and reports for wood infesting pests as part of a real estate transaction.
It does not include applications for cockroaches, fleas, rodents and other non-wood infesting pests (
Category 7a).