Reviewed by William "Willy" Vizcarrondo, NYS DEC Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator C1825832. Updated September 23, 2026.
Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Stony Brook, NY (ZIP 11790), for homes and rentals, with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Stony Brook is about forty minutes from our base in Oyster Bay, out the Expressway to Nicolls Road or along Route 25A.
Stony Brook is a North Shore hamlet of 13,467 people on 6.25 square miles, and the housing spans more than three centuries. The first settlers arrived in the late 1600s and called it Wopowog, a gristmill went up in 1699 and the current mill dates to 1751, the railroad turned it into a resort in the 1870s, and starting in 1939 Ward Melville rebuilt the commercial core into the New England-style Stony Brook Village Center. So the streets between the harbor and 25A carry colonial-era and 19th-century houses, Melville-era cottages and converted buildings, and postwar developments all within a few blocks of each other. The old houses have fieldstone foundations, original sills and cedar shingle, which is a century or more of wood at grade for carpenter ants and subterranean termites and a lot of foundation gaps for mice.
Then there's the university. Stony Brook University moved here in 1962 on land Melville donated, and its main campus is 1,454 acres with more than 27,000 students, the largest public university campus in New York by area. That means a big stock of rental houses, shared homes and basement apartments on the streets around it, and rentals are how German cockroaches and mice get established and spread. Bobby Bugs works with landlords and property managers here as well as homeowners. The campus itself is split by the Ashley Schiff Forest Preserve, and between that, Stony Brook Harbor, the narrow inlet off the Sound, and the wooded lots along 25A, the wildlife pressure is real: raccoons and squirrels in attics, ticks in the leaf litter, and hornet nests in the big old trees.
Bobby Bugs serves all of Stony Brook and neighboring Setauket, Old Field, St. James, Head of the Harbor, Lake Grove and South Setauket.
Yes. Rental houses, shared homes and basement apartments around the campus are a regular part of our Stony Brook 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.
Yes. Colonial-era and 19th-century houses with original sills, porch posts near the soil and cedar shingle, on wooded lots near the harbor, are exactly what carpenter ants look for, and the Melville-era cottages have the same wood at the same age. Big black ants indoors in late winter mean the nest is in the house. Carpenter ant treatment includes a free estimate and a 6-month written guarantee.
We treat the yard's edges, the leaf litter and the tall grass where ticks wait for a host, and Stony Brook has more of that than most towns because of the preserves, the harbor edge and the wooded lots along 25A. 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 outside the property, so we're upfront about that.
Local facts sourced from Wikipedia: Stony Brook, New York, Wikipedia: Stony Brook University
Nearby areas we also serve: Setauket, Smithtown, Centereach, Selden · All of Suffolk County