Structural pest control licensing
Is your exterminator licensed in West Virginia?
A combined Pesticide Business and Applicator search, so you can check the company and the individual in one place. WVPlants runs on the same platform as Pennsylvania, Montana and Indiana, so the search behaves identically across those four states. Worth pairing with the West Virginia law page: the warranty of habitability cannot be waived there and the duty to pay rent is legally dependent on habitability — but there is NO repair-and-deduct remedy, so do not hire an operator expecting to deduct the cost. Get the landlord to instruct and pay for the work.
- Who regulates it
- WVPlants
- Verification
- Online
- Check before paying
- The business license
The regulator
The credential to look for
Open the official West Virginia search →
Renting in West Virginia? Before you pay for treatment, check whether your landlord is legally responsible for the cost. West Virginia 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.