FOR CHLOË SEVIGNY’S PEST GUY

MMPC, mandmpestcontrol.com; 212-219-8218

when Chloë Sevigny finds a pest in her kitchen, she calls up MMPC, as do

Neil Patrick Harris and

Ellen Barkin. MMPC— which, like Black Widow, is a certified M/WBE—specializes in ecofriendly services and methods, from cryonite rapid freezing to canine bedbug inspections, many of which are performed by technicians who happen to be trained carpenters, too. According to one Upper East Side client, a finance worker who spoke under condition of anonymity, the company was able to eliminate a bedbug issue that a previous top-rated company had failed to even diagnose—as the bugs were only biting one of her children, rather than the whole family, the client’s case was trickier than usual. After a series of fumigations—of both the apartment and the family’s tented belongings—”we never saw another bedbug,” the client says. She continued to have MMPC monitor her apartment monthly and set up interceptor cups to prevent any recurrences. “This was all very disruptive and expensive,” she notes, “but we wanted to have 100 percent success and move on.” (MMPC charges $250 and up, and its service includes free pest ID-ing and entomologist service, in which the pests are analyzed in a lab.)