Reviewed by William "Willy" Vizcarrondo, NYS DEC Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator C1825832. Updated September 23, 2026.
Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in West Islip, NY (ZIP 11795), with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. West Islip is about forty minutes from our base in Oyster Bay, down the Sagtikos to the Southern State.
West Islip is a South Shore hamlet of 27,048 people, and a lot of it is water. Of its 7.81 square miles, 1.71 are water: the Great South Bay to the south, Sampawams Creek on the Babylon line, Hawley's Lake and the Guggenheim Lakes. The Secatogue lived along those waterways first, and a burial ground unearthed north of West Islip beach let historians reconstruct their village. Europeans farmed and fished here from 1683, and the Long Island Rail Road's arrival in the mid-1800s brought the first real development, so the streets near Montauk Highway carry older frame houses alongside the postwar capes and splits that filled in the rest of the hamlet. The Robert Moses Causeway, which starts here and crosses the bay to Captree and Fire Island, was first completed in 1951, and the neighborhoods around it and Good Samaritan Hospital date from that boom.
Water drives the pest list. The bay-front streets, with bulkheads, docks and boat storage, are Norway rat habitat, and the creeks and lakes keep the low ground wet, which means American cockroaches from drains, moisture pests in basements and mosquitoes in the yards along them. The tree-lined blocks north of Montauk Highway have the mature oaks that feed carpenter ants and hold hornet nests, and the creek corridors push raccoons and opossums into garages and attics. The Montauk Highway strip and the hospital area keep rodents fed.
Bobby Bugs serves all of West Islip and neighboring Babylon, North Babylon, Bay Shore, Brightwaters and Deer Park.
Yes. The bulkheads and docks along the Great South Bay and Sampawams Creek give Norway rats water, cover and burrow sites year round. Rats burrow behind bulkheads and under decks, then follow pet food, bird feeders and garbage into houses. Rat work on the water side means interior trapping, exclusion along the foundation and bulkhead, and locked exterior bait stations that we service, with a 60-day written guarantee.
Because the mature oaks on the older blocks and the damp ground near the creeks and lakes keep carpenter ant colonies close, and by spring a satellite colony has found soft wood in the house, usually around a bathroom, a deck ledger or a window frame. Large black ants indoors in late winter mean the nest is inside. Carpenter ant treatment includes a free estimate and a 6-month written guarantee.
Usually the next day, often the same day. For most pests we can quote over the phone and schedule on the same call. Call (516) 509-6001 with the pest and the type of home.
Local facts sourced from Wikipedia: West Islip, New York, Wikipedia: Robert Moses Causeway
Nearby areas we also serve: Babylon, Bay Shore, Lindenhurst, Deer Park · All of Suffolk County