Reviewed by William "Willy" Vizcarrondo, NYS DEC Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator C1825832. Updated September 23, 2026.
Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Islip, NY (ZIP 11751), with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Islip is about forty five minutes from our base in Oyster Bay, down the Sagtikos and the Southern State, and it's the eastern end of our regular South Shore route.
Islip is the hamlet the whole town is named for, 18,418 people on 4.75 square miles of land plus 0.65 of water along the Great South Bay, across from Fire Island. William Nicoll bought the land from the Sachem Winnequaheagh in 1683 and named his 100-square-mile patent after his family's home in England, and the post office took the name when it opened in 1802. The railroad reached Islip Station in 1868, and Main Street, Route 27A, is still the small shopping district it grew into. That history is in the housing. The streets around Main Street and the station carry older frame houses with original sills, porches and stone foundations that carpenter ants, termites and mice have been finding for a century, and the postwar capes and ranches north of Montauk Highway have the standard October mouse problem. Bayberry Point, the most affluent section, sits right on the bay.
Two big pieces of open land shape the rest. The Seatuck National Wildlife Refuge sits at the hamlet's southeastern corner, 196 acres established in 1968, about half of it tidal marsh, with white-tailed deer, red foxes, waterfowl and raptors. Homes along the refuge and the bay marshes get the raccoons, opossums, ticks and mosquitoes that come with it. Just east in Great River, the Bayard Cutting Arboretum's 691 acres of Olmsted-designed woods run down to the Connetquot River, and the streets near it see more squirrels, carpenter ants and hornets than the center of the hamlet. The bay-front streets carry Norway rats along the docks and bulkheads, and Main Street's restaurants keep them fed.
Bobby Bugs serves all of Islip and neighboring East Islip, Great River, Bay Shore, Brightwaters, Islip Terrace and Central Islip.
Usually raccoons at night and squirrels during the day, with opossums under decks and sheds. The refuge is 196 acres of marsh, woods and grassland with a full wildlife population, and your property is the edge of it. Nesting removal includes sealing the entry with wire mesh and carries a 6-month written guarantee.
Yes. Frame houses from the railroad era with original sills, porches and stone foundations, on ground that stays damp near the bay and creeks, are exactly what subterranean termites and carpenter ants need. Mud tubes and spring swarmers point to termites; big black ants indoors in late winter point to carpenter ants. Termite treatment carries a written guarantee of 1 to 2 years, and carpenter ant treatment carries a 6-month written guarantee, both with a free estimate.
Yes. The docks, bulkheads and boat storage along the Great South Bay give Norway rats water, cover and burrow sites, and the restaurants on Main Street give them food. Rat work near the bay means interior trapping, sealing entry points along the foundation, and locked exterior bait stations that we service, with a 60-day written guarantee.
Local facts sourced from Wikipedia: Islip (hamlet), New York, Wikipedia: Seatuck National Wildlife Refuge, Wikipedia: Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park
Nearby areas we also serve: Bay Shore, West Islip, Ronkonkoma, Brentwood · All of Suffolk County