Glossary
The terms that turn up in inspection reports, contracts, and on labels.
- Pesticide labelThe legally binding directions approved by the EPA for a specific pesticide product, cover…
- FIFRAThe Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act — the federal statute under which …
- Restricted-use pesticideA pesticide classified by the EPA as posing potential unreasonable adverse effects without…
- Certified applicatorA person certified by a state or federal programme to use or supervise the use of restrict…
- Integrated pest managementA decision-making framework that identifies the pest, monitors the population, removes wha…
- ExclusionPhysically sealing the gaps, cracks, and openings a pest uses to enter a structure, using …
- HarbourageThe tight cracks, voids, and sheltered spaces a pest population actually lives in, as dist…
- FrassThe excrement and boring debris an insect pushes out of wood, whose texture identifies the…
- Mud tubeA pencil-width shelter tube of packed soil built by subterranean termites to travel betwee…
- SwarmerA winged reproductive termite or ant leaving a mature colony to found a new one. Indoors, …
- BuddingThe splitting of an ant colony into multiple new colonies, often triggered by disturbance …
- Conducive conditionsFindings in an inspection report that make a structure attractive or accessible to wood-de…
- Wood-destroying insect reportAn inspection report on visible and accessible evidence of wood-destroying insects in a st…
- Termite bondA contract with a pest control company covering ongoing termite protection, which may cove…
- MonitoringPlacing devices such as glue boards or interceptors to detect whether a pest population ex…
- Alpha-gal syndromeAn acquired allergy to mammalian meat that can develop after a bite from certain ticks, no…
- Implied warranty of habitabilityA legal doctrine in most US states requiring a landlord to maintain a rental in a conditio…
- Fumigation vs. "fumigación"True structural fumigation is a licensed operation that seals a building and fills it with…