Never chase the toad out of your garden — it eats what you never see at night

You chase the bat out of your attic. It was eating a thousand mosquitoes a night.

You crush the stink bug on your windowsill. It's not the bug you think it is.

You tear down the hornet nest. It had stood there all summer.

You wash the hairy spider down the shower drain. It hadn't left that corner in months.

You chase the lizard off your wall. It was keeping the flies under control.

You kill the wasp in your kitchen. It was feeding its nest with caterpillars.

You crush the ground beetle in the flower bed. It had been eating slugs all night.

You wash the pillbug down the sink. It was cleaning your soil.

You chase the spider off your balcony. It was hunting mosquitoes.

You crush the parasitic wasp on that leaf. It already laid its eggs inside the caterpillar

You chase the opossum out of your garden. It ate the slugs and mice that got in last night

You destroy the anthill in your yard. You just wiped out your soil's cleanup crew

You kill the dragonfly by the pond. It was already eating mosquitoes as a larva

You crush the wolf spider by the flower bed. It had been patrolling it all night

You toss the earthworm off the sidewalk. It was building your soil

You wash the daddy longlegs down the drain. It's not a spider and never was one

You tear that bumblebee nest out of the ground. You just destroyed a pollinator for your own plants

You kill the praying mantis in your garden. You just removed your best predator

You crush the green lacewing on your window. You just killed an aphid hunter

The gray spider in your bathroom corner isn't the enemy. It's there for a reason

Never disturb the ground wasps in your yard — they're guarding your plants

Never crush the pillbug in your basement — it's signaling a problem

You crush the earwig in your garden. You're killing an ally.

Never chase the swallow off your porch — here's what it does for your family

A bat in the house isn't a horror story. It's the best mosquito control you have.

You sweep away that spiderweb every week. You're making a mistake.

Never knock that nest off the wall — look who's living inside first

Never touch the dung beetle in your yard — it's doing a job you can't

Never kill the centipede in your house — it's hunting something much worse