Waves Pest Control

ON THE CALENDAR: Dog days (Jul 3 – Aug 11) 🐕
The sticky Gulf-coast weeks when fleas do their best work. Thirty seconds tells you if they've found your dog: part the coat at the tail base → look for black specks that don't move → wet-paper-towel test (rust-red = fleas, black = just dirt).
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NAME THAT SWFL BUG № 02 🔍 Bad photo. Name it anyway.
Hints: huge, orange, walks everywhere because flying is beneath it.
Guesses below ⬇️ Answer tomorrow.

That giant brown spider sprinting across your garage floor isn't a brown recluse — it's almost certainly a wolf spider, and it's more scared of you than you are of it. 🕷️ They don't web, they chase down prey on foot, and a bite (rare) is about like a bee sting. Full breakdown on the blog.

Wolf Spiders in Florida: Big, Fast, Freaky-Looking — and Basically Harmless That giant brown spider streaking across your Southwest Florida garage? Almost certainly a wolf spider. Here's how to ID them, what a bite actually feels like

Most Florida spiders you find on your lanai are doing you a favor — eating mosquitoes, gnats, and other stuff you don't want. The two that actually matter here in SWFL are black widows and their cousins. Full breakdown on the blog. 🕷️

Florida Spiders: Which Ones Actually Matter (and Which Are Just Chilling) A no-panic Southwest Florida guide to spider identification: the widow species that matter, the recluse myth, and the harmless ones eating your mosquitoes.