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
Opossum removal in Columbia from our headquarters at 2119 Gadsden Street. Usually a crawl space or deck problem, and usually accompanied by fleas.
Opossums den under decks, sheds and in crawl spaces, and Columbia housing stock gives them plenty of both. Access is normally a damaged crawl space vent, a gap under deck skirting, or a foundation opening that has been there for years unnoticed.
The complication people do not expect is fleas. Opossums carry heavy flea loads, and an animal denning under your house will leave a population behind after it is gone. Removal without flea treatment often turns into a second call.
From recurring pest control and termite protection to wildlife, moisture, mosquito, and commercial programs, Modern builds practical solutions around your property. Integrated Pest Management guides our service-first approach.
Inspections, baiting systems, pre-construction treatment, and CL100 / WDO support.
Recurring and one-time protection for common household pests with an IPM-first approach.
Trapping, removal, exclusion, and damage repair for common South Carolina wildlife.
Every visit includes the same core steps, built to solve the problem instead of masking it for a few days.
A technician inspects the property inside and out, identifies the pest and the conditions behind it, and locates entry points and likely nest or harborage sites before any treatment begins.
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The pest, the severity, and the property determine the plan. A minor problem calls for a different approach than a heavy infestation or a structural issue.
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Technicians apply targeted treatments at entry points, nesting sites, and problem areas, matched to the pest and the property, indoors and outdoors as needed.
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After treatment, technicians point out conditions that invite pests back, such as moisture or exposed food sources, and schedule follow-up service if activity continues.
We handle all three, because dealing with the animal and leaving the fleas behind is not finishing the job.
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Opossums are not aggressive and they do considerably less structural damage than raccoons, which leads people to leave them alone. The problem is what they bring with them and what happens if one dies under the house.
They rarely carry rabies and prefer to bluff or play dead rather than fight, but they should still not be approached. Removal is straightforward when handled properly.
Opossum problems in Columbia usually resolve with a combination of removal, exclusion and a few changes to garbage and pet food handling.
Accessible garbage, pet food left outside, fallen fruit and an open crawl space or deck. Remove those and the property stops being attractive to the next one.
An established den usually means a flea population that stays behind after the animal is gone. If you have fleas and no pets, wildlife denning underneath is the usual explanation.
If it is denning under the house, yes. The flea load is the practical issue, and an animal that dies in a crawl space becomes a much bigger problem than the one you started with.
Very likely. Wildlife denning under a deck or in a crawl space is the usual explanation for fleas in a home without pets.
Less than raccoons. They rarely carry rabies and prefer to bluff or play dead rather than fight, but they should still not be approached.
Damaged crawl space vents, gaps under deck skirting, and foundation openings. Sealing those is what stops the next one.