Reviewed by William "Willy" Vizcarrondo, NYS DEC Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator C1825832. Updated September 23, 2026.
Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Selden, NY (ZIP 11784), for homes and rentals, with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Selden is about fifty minutes from our base in Oyster Bay, out the Expressway to Nicolls Road or Route 112.
Selden is a hamlet of 21,262 people on 4.55 square miles in the Town of Brookhaven, wedged between Centereach to the west, Coram to the east, Farmingville to the south and Terryville to the north. It was farm country called Westfield until 1852, when a post office opened and the community named itself after attorney Henry R. Selden, who had promised to do "something handsome" for them in return. By 1885 it had 88 residents, a Presbyterian church from 1857, and a reputation for melons and early garden vegetables. It stayed that way until the 1950s, then filled in through the 1970s with capes, ranches and high-ranches on sandy lots, the same postwar housing as Centereach next door, now 50 to 70 years old with original foundations, garages and decks.
What makes Selden different is the Ammerman Campus of Suffolk County Community College, with more than 11,000 students, which means a large stock of rental houses, basement apartments and shared homes on the streets around it. Rentals turn over, tenants bring in used furniture and boxes, and kitchens get shared, which is how German cockroaches and mice get established and spread. Bobby Bugs works with landlords and property managers here as well as homeowners. Middle Country Road, Route 25, is the main commercial strip and carries the rat and roach pressure from restaurants and shopping centers, and the wooded edges toward Coram and Terryville push carpenter ants, squirrels and hornets into the yards along them.
Bobby Bugs serves all of Selden and neighboring Centereach, Coram, Farmingville, Terryville, Port Jefferson Station and Lake Grove.
Yes. Rentals around the Ammerman Campus are a regular part of our Selden work, mostly for German cockroaches and mice that arrive with turnover and spread through shared kitchens and plumbing. We work directly with landlords and property managers, put every job in writing, and roach and mouse treatments carry a 60-day written guarantee.
Because pavement ants and odorous house ants nest in the sandy soil under slabs, walkways and foundations across Selden, and the first warm days in April send them into kitchens looking for water and sugar. Spraying the trail moves them, it doesn't end them. We treat the colony at the source, and ant treatment carries a 90-day written guarantee.
Yes. Capes, ranches and high-ranches from the 1950s through the 1970s with original sills, slab additions and decks near the soil are the most termite-prone housing in the Town of Brookhaven, and Selden's sandy ground is easy tunneling. Mud tubes on the 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: Selden, New York
Nearby areas we also serve: Centereach, Ronkonkoma, Holbrook, Smithtown · All of Suffolk County