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05/30/2026

The Mayo Clinic says serious reactions are reasons to seek emergency care.

05/28/2026

Eight predators already working the yard after dark. Each one eats the insects most people spray for.

The ground beetle hunts slugs and cutworms under the mulch at night and shelters in leaf litter by day. Most people who see one think pest. She's the opposite.

The garden spider rebuilds her entire web from memory every night — eats the old one, spins a new one, catches hundreds of insects before dawn.

🌿 The parasitic wasp is the one most people never see. She's tiny, can't sting you, and lays her eggs inside pest caterpillars. The larva consumes the host from inside. No spray matches that specificity.

The toad sits under the same porch step every evening, eating whatever lands within range. The bat circles the same streetlight. The wheel bug patrols the shrub line. The mantis waits on the stem. The dragonfly clears the airspace over the pond.

Eight species. All present. All hunting right now 🐾

Update on "Sparky the wonder Dog"....His Jaw is healing nicely and is on soft food for at least a month and Hopefully wi...
05/28/2026

Update on "Sparky the wonder Dog"....His Jaw is healing nicely and is on soft food for at least a month and Hopefully will stop chasing cars....

Please keep "Sparky the wonder Dog" in your prayers he was hit by a car and is in the Hospital....
05/21/2026

Please keep "Sparky the wonder Dog" in your prayers he was hit by a car and is in the Hospital....

05/19/2026

You have at least four types of spider web in your yard right now. Each one was built by a different species to catch a different kind of prey.

You don't need to see the spider to know what she is. The web is the ID 🌿

🕸️ The orb web — the classic circular web with radiating spokes and a sticky spiral. Built at night, often destroyed by morning, rebuilt the next evening from scratch. This belongs to a garden spider. She catches flying insects — moths, flies, beetles, mosquitoes. If you see a big wheel-shaped web between two plants, leave it. She's removing more pests overnight than any trap you could hang

🕸️ The funnel web — a flat, sheet-like web with a funnel-shaped retreat at one end. Found in ground cover, rock walls, and foundation corners. The spider sits inside the funnel and waits for vibrations. When a cricket or ant hits the sheet, she rushes out, grabs it, and drags it inside. Fast, startling to watch, and harmless to people

🕸️ The cobweb — irregular, tangled, three-dimensional. Found in corners, under furniture, in garages and sheds. Most cobweb spiders are small and harmless. Their webs catch crawling insects, ants, and even other spiders. The messy web in the garage corner is usually one of these — and she's been quietly managing the insect traffic you never noticed

🕸️ The sheet web — a horizontal, hammock-like sheet of silk stretched between grass blades or low shrubs. Below it, a tangle of fine trip lines. Insects hit the trip lines, fall onto the sheet, and the spider attacks from below. The spiders that build these are tiny — you'll rarely see them — but their webs are everywhere if you look at lawn level on a dewy morning

🌱 How to use the web as your field guide:

- Circular and organized = orb weaver. Flying-insect hunter. Leave the web intact — she rebuilds it nightly anyway, but tearing it down costs her a night of hunting
- Flat sheet with a funnel at one end = funnel weaver. Ground-insect hunter. Common along foundations — she's eating what crawls near the house
- Messy tangle in a corner = cobweb spider. General predator. The messiness is the design — it catches insects approaching from any direction
- Horizontal hammock in the grass = sheet-web spider. The trip-line-and-fall strategy is one of the most effective trapping designs in the yard, and most people have never noticed it

Four webs. Four strategies. All of them working for you 🌿

05/06/2026

An invasive ant species with a painful and potentially dangerous sting is spreading across the United States, prompting warnings for residents to stay alert.

Meet "Sparky" the wonder dog...He has made us all his new extended family and Loves everyone he meets. 🐶😊
05/05/2026

Meet "Sparky" the wonder dog...He has made us all his new extended family and Loves everyone he meets. 🐶😊

A friendly tarantula visited our shop today and we have named it Boris the Spider.
04/16/2026

A friendly tarantula visited our shop today and we have named it Boris the Spider.

Termite Swarm Season has arrived!!! Get in touch with us for a complimentary evaluation and estimate
03/25/2026

Termite Swarm Season has arrived!!! Get in touch with us for a complimentary evaluation and estimate

Got Ant Issues? Call Us! We Offer Customizable Quarterly, Monthly or Single-Visit Solutions with a Guarantee. 501-941-74...
03/25/2026

Got Ant Issues? Call Us! We Offer Customizable Quarterly, Monthly or Single-Visit Solutions with a Guarantee. 501-941-7449 or arkansasextermination.com

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