Reviewed by William "Willy" Vizcarrondo, NYS DEC Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator C1825832. Updated September 23, 2026.
Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Long Beach, NY (ZIP 11561), for houses, apartments, and co-ops, with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Long Beach is about forty five minutes from our base in Oyster Bay, over the Long Beach Bridge from Island Park, and we cover the whole barrier island from the West End to the Lido Beach line.
Long Beach is a city, not a village, incorporated in 1922, and it is built differently from every other place we serve. It sits on the westernmost barrier island off the South Shore, with the Atlantic Ocean on one side, Reynolds Channel on the other three, and a 2.2-mile boardwalk along the oceanfront. About 35,000 people live on that strip of sand, and fewer than 40 percent of the homes are detached houses. The rest are apartment buildings, co-ops and attached homes, which makes Long Beach one of the densest cities in the country. Density is what drives pest work here. German cockroaches move between units through shared walls and plumbing chases, and mice run the length of an apartment building along the same paths. Treating one unit and ignoring the neighbors doesn't hold, so we treat with the building in mind.
The neighborhoods each bring their own problems. The West End is small bungalows and larger houses on narrow lots, many of them from the early development years, with crawlspaces that stay damp. The Canals section has four parallel canals cut in from Reynolds Channel, and the bulkheads and docks there are prime Norway rat habitat, the same way canal-front Massapequa is. The Walks are rows of houses separated by sidewalks barely wide enough for a person, which means roaches and rodents travel house to house in a few feet. The East End has bigger family homes. Across all of it, the 2012 storm surge from Hurricane Sandy left a generation of rebuilt lower levels, and the gaps where new framing meets old foundations are where mice come in every fall. The salt air also means no wooden deck or fence lasts long, and softened, weathered wood is exactly what carpenter bees and carpenter ants want.
Park Avenue and West Beech Street are the commercial strips, dense with restaurants and bars, and the apartments above and behind them carry the heaviest roach pressure on the island. Bobby Bugs also serves East Atlantic Beach, Atlantic Beach, Lido Beach, Point Lookout and Island Park.
Because the roaches live in the building, not just the unit, and fewer than 40 percent of homes in the city are detached houses. German cockroaches travel through shared walls, pipe chases and hallway trash rooms, so a single sprayed apartment gets reinfested from next door. We treat the unit, the adjoining voids and the common routes, and our roach work carries a 60-day written guarantee.
Yes. The Canals section gets Norway rats for the same reason canal-front Massapequa does: four canals cut in from Reynolds Channel with bulkheads, docks and boat storage that give rats cover, water and nesting space. Rats burrow behind bulkheads and under decks, then follow pet food, bird feeders and garbage into houses. Our rat treatment covers burrow baiting, exclusion at the house and a 60-day written guarantee.
Yes. Carpenter bees are a steady spring and summer problem in Long Beach because the salt air weathers exposed wood fast, and weathered, unpainted wood is what they bore into. Deck railings, fascia boards and West End bungalow trim are the usual targets, and each female drills a fresh gallery every year if the wood is left untreated. We treat and plug the galleries, and carpenter bee work carries a 1-year written guarantee.
Local facts sourced from Wikipedia: Long Beach, New York, Wikipedia: Long Beach Barrier Island
Nearby areas we also serve: Oceanside, Rockville Centre, Baldwin, Freeport · All of Nassau County