Reviewed by William "Willy" Vizcarrondo, NYS DEC Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator C1825832. Updated September 23, 2026.
Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Medford, NY (ZIP 11763), with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Medford is about fifty five minutes from our base in Oyster Bay, straight out the Long Island Expressway to Route 112.
Medford is a big, spread-out hamlet of 24,247 people on 10.8 square miles in the Town of Brookhaven, and it sits inside the Long Island Central Pine Barrens. That's the fact that shapes everything about pest work here. The railroad put a station in the wilderness here in 1843 and ran an experimental farm in 1907 to prove the sandy soil could grow anything, and Theodore Roosevelt came out to see it in 1910. Real development didn't arrive until the 1960s, with Eagle Estates in 1963 and the shopping centers and subdivisions that followed, and the Long Island Expressway cut through in 1970. So the bulk of Medford's 8,416 housing units are 1960s and 1970s high-ranches, colonials and splits on sandy lots, now 50 to 60 years old, with the original block foundations, attached garages, sliding doors and decks that carpenter ants, subterranean termites and mice have been working on for decades.
The pine barrens are the other half. Scrub oak and pitch pine come right up to the back fences on most streets, and that means ticks in the leaf litter, deer in the yard, raccoons and squirrels in the garage, and hornet and yellowjacket nests in the trees and the sandy ground every summer. Carpenter ants nest in the pine stumps and dead wood and send colonies into the house. The commercial strips along Route 112 and Horseblock Road carry the rat and German cockroach pressure from restaurants and shopping centers, and the Expressway service roads have the same.
Bobby Bugs serves all of Medford and neighboring Patchogue, North Patchogue, Farmingville, Holtsville, Coram, Yaphank and Bellport.
Because Medford sits inside the Central Pine Barrens, and the scrub oak, pitch pine and leaf litter that come up to most back fences are exactly where ticks wait for deer, mice and people. We treat the yard edges, the leaf litter and the tall grass where ticks hold on, and tick treatments are quoted in writing with a free estimate. They don't carry a guarantee, because deer and mice bring new ticks in from the woods, and we're upfront about that.
Because the pine stumps and dead wood in the barrens keep carpenter ant colonies within a few feet of the house, and after 50 to 60 years the sliding-door frames, deck ledgers and bathroom framing on an Eagle Estates-era high-ranch have softened enough to nest in. Big black ants indoors in late winter or early spring mean the nest is inside. Carpenter ant treatment includes a free estimate and a 6-month written guarantee.
Yes. High-ranch lower levels and slab additions that sit close to grade on Medford's sandy soil are easy for eastern subterranean termites to reach, and the wooded lots keep colonies close. Mud tubes on the block foundation and swarmers in April and May are the signs. Termite work includes a free estimate and a written guarantee of 1 to 2 years depending on the treatment.
Local facts sourced from Wikipedia: Medford, New York
Nearby areas we also serve: Patchogue, Holbrook, Selden, Sayville · All of Suffolk County