Place 3-4 drops of product per bait point preferably in the late evening into a refillable bait system or on an impervious surface by the ant run. Liquid, gel, and solid baits are also available encased in plastic containers that are placed in areas where ants have been seen. You can clean it up with hot water and a paper towel (it’s like cleaning up maple syrup), and if you’re aware of where the ant opening is and you’re careful, spills should be rare. They’re usually found only outside, they sting like hornets, and their mound colonies can take over a lawn.

These insects are admirable for their organized societies but detestable for their invasion of our homes.Traps are convenient to use and are odorless, just wish they had completely iradicated those annoying critters.

When posting, clear close-up pics are best as opposed to videos, and PLEASE give your location or country if outside the US. It can be used in various indoor or outdoor situations and is attractive to sugar-feeding ant species. Ant bait also has the advantage of being less intrusive, controlling pests with less pesticide when compared to broad spectrum sprays that have the ability to control a wider variety of pests. Rollins’s Glen Ramsey said that he takes this into account when choosing a bait for a specific location. The insecticides in ant bait products are not well absorbed across the skin into the body, so getting some on the skin is not expected to cause body-wide effects.Imidasect ant gel is a highly effective formulation to attract and control Pharoah Ants, Argentine and Black ants. Antmaster Ant Killer is a highly effective ant bait for the control of various species of pest ants that infest indoors and outdoors. You can’t do the same with opaque bait stations, so with those you’re left guessing about what’s going on.

Unintentional ingestion of small amounts of borax can cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. Because it’s a sweet liquid, it casts the widest net for attracting household ants, including little black ants, odorous house ants, Argentine ants, pharaoh ants, white-footed ants, and acrobat ants. Formulated to destroy the whole colony, it consists of a sweet, sugary gel which worker ants feed on and take back to the nest to the Queen. Ant bait is ideal for eliminating inaccessible ant colonies with a delayed action kill that allows foraging worker ants to take the bait back to the colony - wherever it may be hidden. Place bait stations where ants have been seen or in out-of-the-way places near walls in cabinets, under sinks and refrigerators and in closets.

Antmaster Ant Killer is a ready-to-use sugar-based liquid ant bait formulation that requires no mixing or dilution prior to use. The active ingredient is then spread throughout the whole colony, stopping ants in their tracks and destroying the complete nest at the same time.

Placed it, it was not leaking, came back later and it has leaked a bunch of its bait liquid out the front hole onto the surface it is sitting on. The ants are far too minuscule to tilt it and in fact showed no interest until the liquid inside had spilled out into a big puddle, around which they are gathered like pigs at a trough. If Terro’s T300 Liquid Ant Baits are not available, we recommend Terro T334 Multi-Surface Liquid Ant Baits. The study also indicates that boric acid (which is slightly different from borax) might disrupt the ants ability to regulate water, “causing the ants to ingest more of the bait to counterbalance dehydration. Treatment recommendations were to rinse the boy's mouth and any skin that came into contact with the bait.

Ortho’s Orthene Fire Ant Killer mound bait uses indoxacarb but at a much lower concentration, so it’s good only for mound treatment and not as a yard-wide application. Many manufacturers also sell their bait in a syringe or tube (like toothpaste) so that you can apply it to a scrap of cardboard or directly on the floor near an ant trail, but like sprays and lawn-wide pesticides, this method increases the bait’s potential exposure to non-targeted animals (or kids). For indoor ant control, you can find many other products out there—including Amdro Ant Killing Bait, Combat Ant Killing Bait, Combat Max Ant Killing Bait, Pic Ant Killer Bait, Raid Ant Baits, and Raid Max Double Control Ant Baits—but none match the combination of a clear bait station, effectiveness, and low toxicity that Terro offers. They provide a residual of up to one year in protected areas or until the ant bait is completely consumed.