Reviewed by William "Willy" Vizcarrondo, NYS DEC Certified Commercial Pesticide Applicator C1825832. Updated September 23, 2026.
Bobby Bugs provides licensed pest control in Whitestone, Queens (ZIP 11357), with free written quotes and written guarantees on every job. Whitestone is about forty minutes from our base in Oyster Bay along Northern Boulevard and the Cross Island, and we run it with Bayside on the same route.
Whitestone is detached-house Queens on the East River. About 30,800 people live between the river, Powell's Cove and Francis Lewis Boulevard, almost all of them in single-family homes, and the neighborhood is old. English settlers were here in the 1640s, Francis Lewis, who signed the Declaration of Independence, held estate land here from 1713 to 1802, the railroad came in 1883, and the Malba Land Company started laying out Malba in 1906. The Bronx-Whitestone Bridge opened in 1939 with a 2,300-foot center span that made it the fourth-longest bridge in the world at the time. So the housing runs from early 1900s frame houses with original sills and stone foundations, through 1920s and 1930s brick Tudors and colonials, to postwar capes and the large waterfront homes of Malba, one of the few enclaves of its kind in Queens.
The pests follow the housing and the water. Older frame and brick houses on tree-lined blocks are carpenter ant, termite and mouse territory, with the same October mouse pattern as the Nassau towns just over the line. The waterfront streets in Malba and along Powell's Cove, with docks and bulkheads on the river, are Norway rat habitat, and the marsh edges along the cove breed mosquitoes. The shoreline parks bring raccoons, squirrels and opossums into the yards along them, and the neighborhood's commercial blocks carry the German cockroach and rat pressure that comes with restaurants and dumpsters.
Bobby Bugs serves all of Whitestone, including Malba and Beechhurst, plus neighboring College Point, Flushing, Bay Terrace and Bayside.
Yes. Docks and bulkheads on the East River and Powell's Cove give Norway rats water, cover and burrow sites year round, and the neighborhood's restaurants give them food. Rat work on the water side means interior trapping, sealing entry points along the foundation and bulkhead, and locked exterior bait stations that we service, with a 60-day written guarantee.
Because early 1900s frame houses and 1920s brick houses have stone foundations with a century of settled mortar joints, original sills, and utility entries added long after the house was built, and a mouse needs a gap the width of a pencil. When nights drop into the 40s in October, mice move in. Sealing those entry points is part of every Bobby Bugs mouse job, with a 60-day written guarantee.
Yes. Frame houses with original sills, brick houses with wood framing behind them, and postwar capes with slab additions near the soil are all what eastern subterranean termites look for, and the wooded lots keep colonies close. Mud tubes on the foundation and swarmers near windows 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: Whitestone, Queens
Nearby areas we also serve: Bayside, Flushing, Great Neck, Manhasset · All of Queens