You won’t be getting less arthropods. Only a lower diversity of them.
For example. Most people in my city do it like the above. And 93% of the houses still have highly venomous Gaucho spiders. On the other hand since I’m trying to have a garden like the below, my garden has less of them but more of completely harmless stuff - garden spiders, native bees, crickets, butterflies, and the likes.
I guess OP enjoy swarmed by bugs and spiders
Pollinators are good, though. So… yes?
And spiders are great against flies and mosquitos
I have lots of bees in my garden. It certainly works.
You won’t be getting less arthropods. Only a lower diversity of them.
For example. Most people in my city do it like the above. And 93% of the houses still have highly venomous Gaucho spiders. On the other hand since I’m trying to have a garden like the below, my garden has less of them but more of completely harmless stuff - garden spiders, native bees, crickets, butterflies, and the likes.
You should go out at night and shine a flashlight across lawn surface. The spider eyes are like stars.