Serving Midlands and Upstate, South Carolina
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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
Bee identification and control for Midlands properties. Honey bees are pollinators
and belong in relocation rather than extermination, and we will tell you honestly which one you actually have.
A large share of bee calls turn out to be yellow jackets, which are wasps rather than bees and behave completely differently. Identification is the first and most important step, because it changes the right answer entirely.
Honey bees in a wall or structure should generally be relocated by a beekeeper. Carpenter bees are a structural problem that accumulates year after year. Bumble bees are pollinators that are usually best left alone.
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.
Identify the species, decide whether relocation or treatment is right, act accordingly, and seal the locations that attract nests.
We identify the species and locate the nest or gallery, including ones inside wall voids that are not visible outside.
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Honey bees point toward relocation. Carpenter bees point toward treatment and wood repair. Yellow jackets are a different job entirely.
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Where treatment is appropriate, it is carried out with proper protective equipment by trained technicians.
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Sealing and finishing the wood carpenter bees target, plus guidance on the locations nests recur.
Modern Exterminating stands behind every visit. If a problem returns within a reasonable time after treatment, we come back and address it at no extra charge.
Quick answers on telling bees apart, what to do about a honey bee colony, and why carpenter bee damage adds up.
Pollinators, and generally not something to exterminate. A colony in a wall is usually a relocation job for a beekeeper rather than a pest control treatment.
Large, with a shiny black abdomen. They bore round half-inch holes into eaves, fascia and railings and reuse the same galleries each year.
Fuzzy, round and important pollinators. They nest in the ground or in cavities and are generally best left alone unless the nest is in a high traffic area.
Often yes. Yellow jackets are wasps, far more aggressive, and they sting repeatedly. Many reported bee problems turn out to be them.
We do not treat honey bees as a routine pest. They are pollinators, populations are under pressure, and a colony in a structure is usually better resolved by relocation. Tell us what you are seeing and we will help you identify it correctly before anything is decided.
Carpenter bees are the exception. Males hover aggressively but have no stinger, and females rarely sting. The problem is the wood. They bore into eaves, fascia, decks and railings, extend the same galleries each season, and woodpeckers enlarge the holes hunting the larvae.
Carpenter bees prefer bare, unfinished softwood, so surface treatment matters.
For honey bees, call us before doing anything. Sealing a colony into a wall creates a far worse problem than the bees themselves.
Do not seal the entrance. Trapped bees push into living space and the abandoned comb draws other pests. Call us and we will help identify it and point you toward relocation.
Yes, cumulatively. Individual galleries are small, but they are reused and extended each year, and woodpeckers enlarge them hunting larvae. Over several seasons the damage is real.
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.