Reviewed by William "Willy" Vizcarrondo, NYS DEC Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator C1825832. Updated September 23, 2026.
Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Centereach, NY (ZIP 11720), with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Centereach is about forty five minutes from our base in Oyster Bay, out the Expressway to Nicolls Road.
Centereach is the geographic middle of Long Island, which is how it got its name in 1916, and it's one of the biggest hamlets in the Town of Brookhaven, 30,980 people on 8.92 square miles. It was farmland called New Village until the postwar boom, and the numbers tell the story: 628 residents in 1940, about 20,000 by 1970. Developments like Dawn Estates and Eastwood Village started in the 1950s, and the rest of the hamlet filled in through the 1960s and 1970s with capes, ranches, high-ranches and colonials on sandy soil, all built within a couple of decades of each other and now 50 to 70 years old. There's no LIRR station, so Centereach is a car town, and the attached garages that come with that are the number one mouse entry point we see here every fall.
Middle Country Road, Route 25, runs straight through the hamlet as its main commercial strip, and the shopping centers, restaurants and delis along it are where rats and German cockroaches concentrate before moving into the apartments and homes behind them. Nicolls Road on the east side is the other big corridor. Away from the strips, Centereach has the mature oaks and pines that grew up around the 1950s developments, and those feed carpenter ants, hold hornet nests high in the branches every summer, and give squirrels a bridge onto the roof. The wooded edges toward Stony Brook and South Setauket carry the most wildlife and tick pressure.
Bobby Bugs serves all of Centereach and neighboring Selden, Lake Grove, Stony Brook, South Setauket, Lake Ronkonkoma and Nesconset.
Because Centereach was built as a car town, with no train station and an attached garage on nearly every postwar house, and the gap under a garage door plus the door into the house is the easiest path a mouse has. Once nights drop into the 40s in October, the whole street's garages fill at once. Sealing garage-door edges and utility entries with steel mesh is part of every Bobby Bugs mouse job, with a 60-day written guarantee.
Yes. Restaurants, delis, shopping centers and the apartments near Route 25 are a regular part of our Centereach work, mostly for German cockroaches and rats drawn by dumpsters and food service. We treat the unit or the business and identify where the pressure is coming from. Roach and rat work carries a 60-day written guarantee.
Yes. Capes, ranches and high-ranches from the Dawn Estates and Eastwood Village era have original sills, slab additions and decks near the soil on sandy ground that termites tunnel through easily. Mud tubes on the foundation and swarmers in April and May are the signs. A termite inspection is quoted in writing, and treatment carries a written guarantee of 1 to 2 years depending on the treatment.
Local facts sourced from Wikipedia: Centereach, New York
Nearby areas we also serve: Selden, Smithtown, Ronkonkoma, Holbrook · All of Suffolk County