Reviewed by William "Willy" Vizcarrondo, NYS DEC Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator C1825832. Updated September 23, 2026.
Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Southampton, NY (ZIP 11968 and 11969), for year-round homes, seasonal houses, and estates, with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Southampton is about an hour and a half from our base in Oyster Bay, out the Expressway and Sunrise Highway, and we schedule East End work in blocks so the drive never delays a job.
Southampton Village is the oldest English settlement in New York State, founded in 1640 by settlers from Lynn, Massachusetts, and incorporated in 1894. It's 4,550 year-round residents on 6.52 square miles of land, with the Atlantic Ocean on the south, Lake Agawam in the middle of the village, and the Shinnecock Indian Reservation, established in 1701, on the southwestern edge. The population jumped 46 percent between 2010 and 2020, which tells you how many seasonal houses became year-round homes. That's the pest story here. A house that's closed up from October to May is a house where mice have the run of the kitchen for seven months, and where a carpenter ant colony in a damp sill goes unnoticed until the family opens the door for Memorial Day. We do a lot of pre-season openings and off-season checks in Southampton for exactly that reason.
The housing itself is old and wood. The village center and the streets around it hold houses that go back centuries, with hand-hewn sills, fieldstone foundations and cedar shingle, and the Estate Section north of the oceanfront and Meadow Lane carry shingle-style estates with acres of cedar, wraparound porches and pool houses. Cedar shingle on the ocean takes salt and weather, softens, and becomes carpenter ant and carpenter bee habitat, and the big wooded lots, hedgerows and privet keep ticks, deer, raccoons and hornet nests close to every house. Lake Agawam and the bay marshes breed mosquitoes.
Bobby Bugs serves Southampton Village and neighboring Water Mill, Shinnecock Hills, North Sea, Tuckahoe and Hampton Bays.
Yes. Pre-season openings and off-season checks are a regular part of our Southampton work. A house closed from fall to spring is where mice, carpenter ants and wasps get established unnoticed, so we inspect, treat and seal before the family arrives, and we can work with your caretaker or property manager. Every job comes with a free written quote and a written guarantee.
Because cedar shingle, cedar trim and wraparound porches take salt air and ocean weather for decades, and softened, unpainted cedar is exactly what both carpenter ants and carpenter bees want. Big black ants indoors in late winter point to a carpenter ant nest inside; round half-inch holes in the trim each spring point to carpenter bees. Carpenter ant treatment carries a 6-month written guarantee and carpenter bee treatment carries a 1-year written guarantee, both with a free estimate.
We treat the edges, the hedgerows, the privet lines and the leaf litter where ticks wait for deer and people, which on an estate lot is a lot of edge. Tick treatments are quoted in writing with a free estimate. They don't carry a guarantee, because deer bring new ticks onto the property from outside, and we're upfront about that.
Local facts sourced from Wikipedia: Southampton (village), New York
Nearby areas we also serve: East Hampton, Riverhead, Patchogue, Sayville · All of Suffolk County