Long Branch is home base. Anthony lives here, the truck is parked here, and most weekday mornings the schedule starts somewhere between Branchport Avenue and Ocean Avenue. That matters for one simple reason — when you call us, the tech showing up isn't driving an hour from somewhere else. He's already two miles away.
Long Branch has the perfect storm of mosquito pressure: shaded older neighborhoods inland of Ocean Avenue, the Monmouth University drainage corridors, the Pleasure Bay marshland, and dense tree canopy on the West End side. Asian tiger mosquitoes (the aggressive day-biting ones) thrive in the stacked yards north of Joline Avenue where every house has a fence, a downspout, a kiddie pool, and a flower pot saucer holding a teaspoon of water — that's all they need to breed.
Tick pressure is real too, especially on the bluff-side properties and any home backed up to the South Branch Park system or the wooded lots behind Elberon. Lyme disease cases in Monmouth have been climbing year-over-year, and Long Branch's mix of mature trees, deer crossings near Brighton Avenue, and humid coastal air keeps the tick season active from April through November.
Every Long Branch property gets a walk-through before the first treatment. We're looking for the spots specific to your yard — bromeliads on the deck, an old gutter holding a half-inch of water, a kid's water table out back, ivy beds against a north-facing fence where adult mosquitoes rest during the heat of the day. We hit the resting sites, treat the perimeter for mosquitoes, and apply granular tick control to the shaded zones where deer ticks actually live.
Treatments last 21–30 days. We rotate active ingredients across the season so resistance doesn't build. Family, pet, and pollinator safe — we time treatments around bloom windows so we don't impact bees on hydrangeas or the pollinator gardens we see all over the West End.
We treat properties throughout Long Branch — including West End, Elberon, North Long Branch, Pleasure Bay, the Branchport corridor, the Ocean Avenue blocks, and Brighton Avenue area. If your block isn't listed by name, we still cover it. Call (732) 272-1929 and we'll tell you straight whether you're in our service zone (you almost certainly are).
Anthony Howard founded Fight the Bite in 2019 and has built the business on one principle: do the work right and the customers stay. Seven years in, we have a 5-star Google rating and dozens of Long Branch-area regulars who renew season after season because the program actually works. No franchise upsells, no quarterly contract lock-ins, no gimmicks. Just mosquito and tick control done by someone who lives in the same county you do.
Call (732) 272-1929 — Anthony picks up personally — for a free estimate on your Long Branch property.
We treat properties throughout coastal Monmouth County. Our service area extends from our Long Branch headquarters across these neighboring towns:
Tell Anthony about your pest problem and he'll get back to you fast.