Serving Midlands and Upstate, South Carolina
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Professional • Honest • Dependable
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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
Centipede and millipede control for Midlands homes. Both are moisture driven, which means the durable fix is correcting the dampness rather than repeating treatment.
Centipedes are fast and flattened with one pair of legs per segment, and they are predators. Finding them usually signals an existing insect population they are hunting. Millipedes are slower and rounded with two pairs per segment, and they curl into a spiral when disturbed.
Both move indoors after heavy rain floods their habitat, and both concentrate in crawl spaces, basements and ground level rooms. Treat the dampness and the food supply, and the pressure drops with them.
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 the moisture and the insect population feeding them, treat the perimeter and harborage, then correct the dampness.
We locate the damp harborage: crawl space, foundation drainage, mulch beds and ground level entry points.
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Treatment planned around both the perimeter and the insect pressure the centipedes are hunting.
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Perimeter and harborage treatment, plus interior treatment in damp rooms where needed.
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Drainage, mulch and crawl space moisture correction so the habitat stops supporting them.
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 the difference between the two, whether they are dangerous, and why they arrive after rain.
Centipedes are flattened and fast with one pair of legs per segment. Millipedes are rounded and slow with two pairs, and they curl into a spiral when disturbed.
House centipedes can deliver a mild pinch but are otherwise harmless. Millipedes do not bite at all. Neither damages structures.
Rain floods their outdoor habitat in leaf litter and soil, and they move toward the structure looking for somewhere dry.
They are predators, so they follow their food. A steady centipede presence usually means there is an insect population somewhere they are hunting.
Both are moisture driven, and in the Midlands that usually traces back to a crawl space. Columbia crawl spaces run above 60 percent humidity for long stretches every summer, and much of the local housing stock is crawl space construction.
Millipedes feed on decaying plant matter and arrive in large numbers after heavy rain. Centipedes hunt other insects, so their presence is a signal as much as a problem. Treating either without addressing the dampness gets you a repeat visit.
Reduce the damp harborage against the structure and the pressure drops with it.
Because we handle moisture control as well as pest management, the cause can be fixed through the same service relationship.
Heavy rain floods their outdoor habitat in leaf litter and soil, and they move toward the structure looking for somewhere dry. Midlands calls cluster right after storms.
It reduces the current population, but both are moisture driven. Unless the crawl space or drainage problem is corrected, the habitat keeps producing 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.