Serving Midlands and Upstate, South Carolina
PHD in Customer Care
Professional • Honest • Dependable
1850+ Reviews
4.9 Rating
Serving Midlands and Upstate, South Carolina
Satisfaction Guaranteed • PHD in Customer Care
Serving Midlands and Upstate, South Carolina
PHD in Customer Care
Professional • Honest • Dependable
1850+ Reviews
4.9 Rating
Serving Midlands and Upstate, South Carolina
Satisfaction Guaranteed • PHD in Customer Care
Pantry pest control for Midlands kitchens. Meal moths, weevils and beetles almost always come home from the store, which is why the work is finding the source item rather than spraying the pantry.
The eggs are already in a package of flour, cereal, rice, pet food or birdseed when you buy it, and they develop on your shelf. This has nothing to do with how clean your kitchen is.
That inverts the usual treatment logic. Spraying a pantry accomplishes little and puts product near food. One overlooked bag of birdseed in the garage will reseed a kitchen indefinitely, so finding and removing the infested item is the job.
Years of Local Service
local & Family-Owned Since 1955
Modern Exterminating has been the longest-standing, local and family-owned pest control company serving the area since 1955. Now in its third generation, the company runs by a simple standard, a PHD in customer care: professional, honest, and dependable, on every visit.
Find and remove the source item, treat cracks and crevices rather than near food, and set up storage that stops it recurring.
We inspect stored food and the surrounding areas to find the infested item, including the ones outside the kitchen.
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Treatment is planned around the source rather than applied across the pantry.
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Where treatment is appropriate it goes into cracks, crevices and shelf edges, not near food.
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Storage and rotation guidance, which for this pest is most of the long term solution.
Modern stands behind its pest control work. If a problem comes back within a reasonable time after service, contact our team and we’ll help address it according to the service plan.
Quick answers on where pantry pests come from, what has to be thrown out, and why they reappear after you cleared the cupboard.
The store. Eggs are in the package at purchase and develop on your shelf. This has nothing to do with how clean your kitchen is.
Not everything, but every infested item has to go. Undamaged sealed glass and hard plastic containers are usually fine.
There is another source. Almost always pet food, birdseed, a decorative dried item, or a spice jar at the back of the cabinet.
Yes. Unpleasant, but pantry pests do not bite, sting or transmit disease, and eating infested food accidentally is not dangerous.
Indian meal moths are the most common by a wide margin. You usually notice the adults flying in the kitchen before you find the source, and the larvae leave silky webbing in and around infested food.
Weevils develop inside individual grains, which makes them nearly impossible to spot at purchase. Sawtoothed grain beetles, red flour beetles and drugstore beetles are small and flat enough to get into packaging that looks sealed. Midlands humidity speeds all of it up.
Storage is most of the answer here, because the insects arrive with the groceries.
Larvae travel to pupate, so cocoons often turn up on ceilings and in cabinet corners far from the food.
There is another source. Larvae also travel to pupate, so cocoons may be nowhere near the food. Pet food, birdseed and rarely used spices are the usual culprits.
From the store. Eggs are in the package at purchase and develop on your shelf. Cleanliness affects how quickly you spot them, not whether you get them.
Appointment length depends on the treatment and property. Our team will explain what to expect, provide an arrival window, and call on the way.
Modern uses low-toxicity, professional products and follows service-specific safety requirements. Some treatments require people or pets to stay out of treated areas until the materials are dry or for a specified period.
