Terro Ant Bait.

[slag]

Does not work that good. Check out Advion Ant Bait Gel from Dupont.

I saw that the exterminator used it when he came to rid my ants a few years ago. Worked awesome. Not available in big box stores; i think it's available on amazon or doyourownpestcontrol.

I bought a few tubes for myself and if ants ever pop up i put down a few dabs and they're gone in 24 hours. I have yet to go through 1 tube.

I don't use an exterminator anymore.

Does not seem to work on carpenter ants (had those at our vacation house).

I've had excellent results with terro bait. Just a few drops and minutes later, there is no room at the feeding trough as the ants lick that stuff up fast and take it back to the nest. We use it once a year normally in Spring and it takes care of our ant issues.

 

[7window]

This. I gave up on all the baits and bought a box of Borax. Mix it up with some sugar and water, place in old cream cheese container with holes punched on the sides, problem solved. Most effective bait I've ever used.

Can you give us the formula(mixture)? Or does anyone know? I know it has to be the right formula.

 

[Tommy2000GT]

Does not work that good. Check out Advion Ant Bait Gel from Dupont.

I saw that the exterminator used it when he came to rid my ants a few years ago. Worked awesome. Not available in big box stores; i think it's available on amazon or doyourownpestcontrol.

I bought a few tubes for myself and if ants ever pop up i put down a few dabs and they're gone in 24 hours. I have yet to go through 1 tube.

I don't use an exterminator anymore.

Does not seem to work on carpenter ants (had those at our vacation house).

Terro did not work that good for me either. I will have to try some of that advion stuff

 

[BurnItDwn]

My house gets swarmed with ants in the spring and the fall. Once a year tiny little ones. Once a year big monster ants.

I have used Terro Liquid Ant Baits indoors and outdoors. They do reduce the # of ants quite a bit.

I started putting down Amdro Ant Block a few years ago ... just sprinkled around my house (and under my deck) ....

For a solid 10-12 months ... the Amdro And Block pretty much keeps 100% of the ants out.

The Terro Liquid ant Baits do work decently well, but, I find the combination of the two is an excellent defense vs ants.

 

[N4n45h1]

Last summer I used 3 boxes of the liquid Terro traps, and I was positive I killed every ant colony on the street

 

[Bubbaleone]

Can you give us the formula(mixture)? Or does anyone know? I know it has to be the right formula.

How to Get Rid Of Ants with home-made borax mixture.

 

[Aikouka]

To be honest, I find that using ant spray works a hell of a lot better. The hardest part is finding out how they're getting in, but once you find that, you can pretty much keep them out for awhile just with one spray. It usually lasts a few weeks, but I've found that unless it's a common entry point (i.e. a door), they rarely use it again.

An example is how I found ants coming through a gap in an electric socket. Yeah, sounds like I had a case of some goddamn ninja ants! I just sprayed them and I've never seen them from there again. About a week or two ago, I was putting some items into the storage room behind my apartment, and there was a metric shit ton of ants back there. It looked like they were preparing to stage an invasion as they were actively climbing up the side of my apartment. I sprayed the little bastards, and I haven't seen them there since.

I'm pretty sure I tried the ant bait once, and all it did was create a huge stream of ants (I mean a solid black line of ants) in my kitchen. Then I sprayed the little fuckers.

I hate ants.

 

[Icepick]

I used Combat Ant Gel http://www.amazon.com/Combat-Ant-Kil...combat+ant+gel

last month. I had a sudden outbreak of carpenter ants in my kitchen and living room one day. The next evening I spread some of this around the area where they seemed to be entering. Over the next 2 hours I watched as 5 or 6 ants feasted on it. By the next morning they were all gone and I haven't seen them since. I still can't believe how quickly this worked.

 

[bradley]

Even with boric acid mixed into the correct potency, you'll sometimes discover borated ants living *years* past having been baited. Just crush a few and they simply will reek of boric acid. lol

I second the nomination of Amdro Ant Killer granules, more widely effective and safer than Terro.

 

[BladeVenom]

Even with boric acid mixed into the correct potency, you'll sometimes discover borated ants living *years* past having been baited.

Ants don't live for years. They have very short lifespans. They do however reproduce fast.

 

[iGas]

1:1 borax:sugar +water.

 

[Ganeedi]

Another thumbs up for the Terro liquid bait ant killers. Raid sucks compared to this stuff.

The ants go nuts for this shit for 2 to 3 days, then no more ants.

 

[blackdogdeek]

i love terro. i love seeing the ants love the terro. when we put it down there's usually a couple of rows of ants eating up the small amounts we put down. but one time so many had come to feed that it looked like a big black coin was sitting where the terro was.

 

[bradley]

dp

 

[bradley]

Ants don't live for years. They have very short lifespans. They do however reproduce fast.

Not all ant genera have tiny lifespans. I believe carpenter worker ants can live between 2-7 years the average queen up to 4x longer.

I placed boric acid/water/sugar solution down in June 2009 and just yesterday crushed a few boric acid smelling ants. The problem with boric acid: too weak a bait and ants don't die, too strong and they are disinterested.