Protect
Honey Bees from Insecticides
Pesticide Product
Registration Information for New York State
Verifying
Pesticide Registration and Restricted-Use Status
Pesticide
Recordkeeping/Reporting
Federal
Private Applicator Recordkeeping Requirements
EPA Worker
Protection Standard (WPS) for Agricultural Pesticides
Reduced-Risk
Pesticides, Minimum-Risk Pesticides, and Biopesticides
Use Pesticides Safely
All pesticides are regulated by state and federal laws to protect the user and consumer. Read labels carefully. Follow instructions.
Most pesticides are poisonous to humans and animals, but when properly used they are not harmful. Handle them with care. Store them in closed, plainly labeled original containers, out of the reach of children and animals. Keep pesticides in locked storage facilities.
When handling, do not allow pesticides to come in contact with the skin. Do not apply on a windy day. Do not smoke while handling pesticides. Do not inhale dusts, sprays, or vapors. After handling pesticides, wash hands and face before eating or smoking.
To avoid accidental injury to susceptible plants, avoid drift of sprays and dusts. Use separate equipment for applying hormone-type herbicides such as 2,4-D.
Dispose of empty containers so that children cannot play with them.
Please refer to the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation (NYSDEC) publication “Part 325, Rules and Regulations Relating to
the Application of Pesticides” for further information relating to the use of
pesticides in
Protect Honey Bees from Insecticides
Honey bees, wild bees, and other insects are important for proper pollination of many vegetables. Vine crops, for example, must be pollinated because they have male and female flowers, and pollen must be transferred from the male to female flowers if fruit is to set. Poor pollination results in small or odd-shaped fruit as well as low yields. Each flower must be visited eight or more times for adequate pollination to occur.
To avoid harming bees with insecticide treatments, remember these points: do not spray crops in bloom; mow blooming weeds before treatment or spray when the blossoms are closed; avoid application during the time of day when field bees are most numerous; make application in the early morning or evening; and always read the label before use.
If pesticides that are highly toxic to bees are used in strict accordance with label directions, little or no harm should be done to bees. Label statements on pesticides that are highly toxic to honey bees may carry a caution statement such as the following: “This product is highly toxic to bees exposed to direct treatment or residues on crops or weeds. Do not apply or allow to drift to weeds in bloom on which an economically significant number of bees are actively foraging. Protective information can be obtained from your Cooperative Extension Service.”
Pesticide Control Legislation
Restricted Pesticides
In accordance with
A: May be distributed, sold, purchased, possessed, and used only upon issuance of a commercial or purchase permit for any uses listed on the approved label as registered with the NYSDEC.
B: May be distributed, sold, purchased, possessed, or used only upon issuance of a commercial permit or purchase permit for those purposes listed in “Part 326 Registration and Classification of Pesticides,” a publication of the NYSDEC.
C: The commissioner of the NYSDEC may place any conditions on the registration of any product that are deemed necessary to prevent damage to health, property and wildlife. Classification as ‘restricted-use’ may be necessary. See Part 326.23 (e).
E: Federally restricted pesticides per EPA.
G: Any product whose label limits use to commercial pesticide applicators only may be distributed, sold, purchased, possessed, and used only upon issuance of a commercial permit or certification identification card. Label statements that limit use to commercial pesticide applicators include but are not limited to the following: (1) Only for sale to and use and storage by commercial pest control operators. (2) To be applied only by or under the direct supervision of commercial applicators responsible for insect control program.
H: Any pesticide labeled for direction application to or in surface waters may be distributed, offered for sale, sold, purchased, possessed, or used only by the holder of a valid commercial permit, verification identification card, or purchase permit.
Pesticide
Product Registration Information for New York State
Verifying Pesticide Registration and Restricted-Use Status
Any pesticide used in