Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Patchogue, NY (ZIP 11772), for apartments, restaurants and homes, with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Patchogue is about fifty five minutes from our base in Oyster Bay, out Sunrise Highway, and it's the eastern end of our regular South Shore route.
Patchogue is an incorporated village of 12,408 people on 2.26 square miles of land along Patchogue Bay, part of the Great South Bay, about 60 miles east of Manhattan. It had 75 residents in 1812, incorporated in 1893, and grew up as an industrial and river town, with a manufactured gas plant on the waterfront from 1904 to 1926 and three churches old enough to be on the National Register. The Patchogue Theatre opened in 1923 and seats 1,166 after its mid-1990s restoration, and in 2019 the American Planning Association named downtown Patchogue one of four Great Neighborhoods in America. That downtown is the pest story. Main Street is packed with restaurants and bars, with apartments above and behind them, and that density of kitchens, dumpsters and shared walls is where German cockroaches and mice concentrate and spread unit to unit.
The water is the other half. Patchogue has a natural riverfront and harbor that has been worked since the village was founded, and the seasonal ferry to Davis Park on Fire Island leaves from Sandspit Park. Marinas, bulkheads and boat storage along the river and bay are Norway rat habitat, and the flat glacial outwash ground stays wet on the low blocks, which means American cockroaches from drains and moisture pests in basements. Away from downtown, the older frame houses around the village carry the sills, porches and foundations that carpenter ants, termites and mice have been finding for a century.
Bobby Bugs serves all of Patchogue and neighboring East Patchogue, North Patchogue, Blue Point, Bayport, Medford and Bellport.