Pest Control in Bayside, Queens

Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Bayside, Queens (ZIP 11360, 11361, 11364), with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Bayside is about thirty five minutes from our base in Oyster Bay along Northern Boulevard or the Long Island Expressway, and it's the first stop on our Queens route.

Bayside is the part of Queens that looks like Nassau. About 43,800 people live on 1,857 acres between the Cross Island Parkway and Little Neck Bay, and the housing is mostly detached single-family homes, Tudors, and the gated communities of Bay Terrace and Bayside Gables, with a stretch of co-ops and apartment buildings toward the water. A lot of it was built in the 1920s and 1930s, when the Astoria movie studios brought stars like Charlie Chaplin and Gloria Swanson out to live here, and the rest filled in after World War II once the LIRR made the commute easy. That means prewar Tudors with slate roofs, original wood sills and stone foundations next to postwar brick capes and colonials, and both have the gaps that mice find in October and the damp wood that carpenter ants find in spring.

The water and the parks are the other half. Little Neck Bay and Long Island Sound sit on the northeast edge, Crocheron Park covers 45 acres on the bay, Alley Pond Park runs along the south, and Fort Totten holds the point. Homes on the streets bordering those parks get the raccoons, squirrels and opossums that come out of them, mosquitoes off the bay and the Alley Pond wetlands, and hornet nests in the big old trees. Bell Boulevard is the commercial strip, dense with restaurants and bars, and the apartments above and behind them carry the German cockroach and rat pressure that comes with kitchens and dumpsters.

Bobby Bugs serves all of Bayside, including Bay Terrace and Oakland Gardens, plus neighboring Douglaston, Little Neck, Whitestone, Fresh Meadows and Flushing.