Reviewed by William "Willy" Vizcarrondo, NYS DEC Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator C1825832. Updated September 23, 2026.
Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Port Jefferson, NY (ZIP 11777), for homes, restaurants, and apartments, with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Port Jefferson is about fifty minutes from our base in Oyster Bay along Route 25A, and it's the eastern end of our regular North Shore route.
Port Jefferson is a village of 7,962 people on about 3 square miles, built on the hills and bluffs around a natural deepwater harbor on Long Island Sound. It was called Drowned Meadow from 1682, the first shipyard went up in 1797, several shipbuilding firms were working the harbor by 1825, and the village took Thomas Jefferson's name in 1836. It didn't incorporate until 1963. The Bridgeport and Port Jefferson Ferry, one of only two commercial ferry lines between Long Island and Connecticut, still runs from the harbor, and the waterfront district holds Harborfront Park, the Mather House Museum and the power station. The downtown around Main Street is dense with restaurants, bars and shops, with apartments above them, and that plus the ferry traffic and the marinas is where the rat and German cockroach pressure sits.
Above the harbor, the village climbs steep hills, and the streets up there carry Victorian and prewar houses with original sills, porches, retaining walls and stone foundations, on wooded lots with big old trees. That's carpenter ant, termite and mouse country, with squirrels and raccoons using the canopy to reach the roof and hornet nests in the trees every summer. Belle Terre and Poquott, beside the harbor, are the same story with more water on more sides.
Bobby Bugs serves all of Port Jefferson and neighboring Port Jefferson Station, Belle Terre, Poquott, Setauket and Mount Sinai.
Yes. Restaurants, bars and the apartments above them along Main Street are a regular part of our Port Jefferson work, mostly for German cockroaches, rats and mice drawn by kitchens, dumpsters and the harbor. We schedule around service hours, treat the kitchen and the shared walls, and roach, rat and mouse work carries a 60-day written guarantee.
Because the marinas, ferry terminal, bulkheads and boat storage around a working harbor give Norway rats water, cover and burrow sites, and the restaurants a block away give them food. Rat work near the harbor means interior trapping, sealing entry points along the foundation and retaining walls, and locked exterior bait stations that we service, with a 60-day written guarantee.
Because the Victorian and prewar houses on the hills above the harbor have original sills, porches and window frames that stay damp, and the wooded lots keep carpenter ant colonies within a few feet of the house. Large 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.
Local facts sourced from Wikipedia: Port Jefferson, New York
Nearby areas we also serve: Setauket, Stony Brook, Selden, Centereach · All of Suffolk County