Terro T1812 Outdoor Liquid Ant Baits - 6 Pack

Terro by itself didn't work (the ants kept coming, or they were interested in protein and not sugar, so they bypassed the Terro baits on their way to the meat scraps in the garbage can in the kitchen.BUT..... Advance 375A ant bait plus Terro stakes in the same container did the trick. The Terro attracted the ants, then they discovered the 375A, and then they foraged on both. Huge ant trails initially going to the containers...after 2-3 days, the ants disappeared.The combination of [Terro + Advance 375A] works as well as Grant's Ant Stakes used to, before they changed the formula.

Our back door is 20 feet away from what an exterminator called a "super colony" of Argentinian ants. As soon as the weather gets warm, we have millions of ants in our house. The kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms, closets--it's like nothing I've ever seen before. We've tried everything (Borax, essential oils, diatomaceous earth, coconut oil, etc.), and this is the only thing that has kept the ants out of our house. We have an endless train of ants walking to the outdoor Terro pods, but I'm just so happy that they're staying outside. Great, great product.

These really do work! We had a big ant infestation in the garden, with 4 separate nests. I was worried about using these with the dogs in the yard, so the night before we left on a weeks vacation, we set up about 10 of these traps, putting them right beside the nests. As soon as we got home we picked up all the traps (ALL the bait was gone) so the dogs could not get to them, and we noticed that all of the nests were no longer active. It WORKED.We now put them outside our fence line so the dogs cant get to them, and it seemed to keep the ants out of the yard all summer. My only issue is they can get messy. You have to be sure to hold them straight up after you clip off the tab and open the trap, otherwise the liquid bait inside will spill out. That is why I only gave 4 stars.

Terro:liquid bait: one of the few ant control products that works.This stuff is like killer crack to ants and get's these Argentine ants good.They will stop dead in their tracks and just start drinking the stuff if you pour a drop in front of them.The dispenser sucks, it relies on the ants sniffing out the bait then climbing up and into the green stake, then up into the wrapper with the gel bait where many of them just fall in and drown instead of going back to the colony. Opening and prepping the bait sucks too. (bend/fold the tab before trying to rip it off, otherwise, you can rip it off without making a hole in the gel pack)One or two deployed correctly will wipe out the small Argentine ant colony in a day or two, but it is like whack a mole with these types of ants. they have many colonies each with own queen or whatever, so you have to keep on whacking each colony. Not only that, I think the ants are learning to avoid this bait/scent and slowly becoming resistant. Word up Terro. Hope your scientists are reading this, doing the research, and working on a new formula.Not sure why none of these pest control / chemical companies can't make an effective, less environmentally toxic, pest control agent that uses ingredients with names containing less than 4 syllables in them.They should just sell that natural boric acid sugar mixture that everyone swears by, for a cheap decent price. It would be less environmentally toxic. Instead, all of the companies just make these weird toxic as hell chemical mixtures that works once during that season for like 5hrs, before the pests start becoming immune or learn to avoid the stuff.

Our front garden and entrance walk areas were absolutely infested with black ants, which had colonized the gardenia bush, starting farming aphids (yes, ants do that!) which in turn produced a substance that was causing black leaf mold on the bush. However, I didn't want to soak the area in toxic pesticides as we're trying to attract bees and butterflies. We used several six packs for the first application- just stick them in the ground around the perimeter of the area where you're trying to eliminate the ants. It definitely knocked them back but didn't get them all during the first go. We're going to reorder, tighten the perimeter, and try again. Again, a preferable alternative to poisonous insecticides- and all of our bees and butterflies have remained unharmed.