Structural pest control licensing
Is your exterminator licensed in Florida?
Florida runs three separate pesticide regimes and it is easy to check the wrong one: Chapter 482 is structural pest control (your bed bug job), Chapter 487 is agricultural, Chapter 388 is mosquito and public health. Two physical checks you can make on the doorstep: service vehicles must be permanently marked on both sides with the business name as registered with FDACS, and moonlighting by employee ID cardholders is illegal — a technician taking your job privately is not covered by anyone's license or insurance. Licensed businesses must carry $250,000/$500,000 bodily injury and $250,000/$500,000 property damage cover. FDACS will also verify by phone on (850) 617-7997.
- Who regulates it
- FDACS
- Verification
- Online
- Check before paying
- The business license
The regulator
The credential to look for
Open the official Florida search →
Renting in Florida? Before you pay for treatment, check whether your landlord is legally responsible for the cost. Florida bed bug law →
What to verify, in order
The business license, not just the technician
Most states license the company and certify the individual separately. A certified technician working for an unlicensed business is still an unlicensed job.
The category or phase covers structural work
Licenses are issued by category. An applicator certified for turf and ornamental has no business in your bedroom.
Status is active, not lapsed
Some state databases exclude cancelled licenses from results entirely, so a revoked company returns the same empty result as a typo. If you get nothing, phone the agency before assuming you mistyped.
Complaint and enforcement history
Where a state publishes disciplinary actions they are usually on the board site rather than inside the license search.
Link last confirmed: . State license portals migrate often and licenses lapse daily — treat anything older than a few months as a starting point, not an answer.
Always confirm on the state's own site. This page points at the official database; it does not mirror or cache license records. Status changes daily and only the issuing agency is authoritative.