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(More customer reviews)Ants are curious and interesting insects. How they manage to expand and endure things that would scare the pee out of we comparatively huge monsters is amazing. When they move into your pantry by the thousands - well, then they are not interesting, but downright creepy.
You can dissuade ants from taking any particular path through your space by using vinegar, diatomaceous earth, insecticides, etc, but they are persistent critters. The only way to REALLY keep them away is to kill them all - and to do that you've got to eliminate the ant-making machinery - the nest, the drones, and the queen. In my case I discovered that they had moved indoors and were living inside the tubular frame of my shower enclosure. Apparently they didn't mind the daily flooding.
I believe others have made note of this fact, but it is important you accept it:
When you put this bait out - and they find it - you're going to have to be patient and willing to watch hordes of thousands of ants beating a path to the bait for as many as three or four days. And you need to let them eat the bait... but usually after as little as 36 hours you will notice a drop off. After 48 hours you'll notice more and more ant carcasses - how many will depend on how far they had to travel to get to the bait and how large the colony is. I used the six baits that come prepackaged placing two near where I believe they appeared to be entering my house through a small hole in the drywall of an exterior wall. And I also baited outside with the Terro 1800 3-Ounce Outdoor Pre-Filled Liquid Ant Baits, 3-Pack. If you're devious like me, you can also pour some goo out of the packaged trays and put along the ant trail where it might not be convenient to put a bait tray. Or you can use the Terro 200 2-Ounce Liquid Ant Killer ll dropper bottle. (Quick math shows that the 3 ounces of bait in the outdoor trays costs less per ounce than the dropper bottle).
The pre-packaged trays are convenient except that they are meant to sit horizontally and you may not find ants crawling along a convenient horizontal surface. You'll need museum putty or tape to put the trays on a wall and you'll need to angle the reservoir end down or they will leak sticky goo. I would have preferred to seem two things changed about the trays:
1. Design the tray to be effective if placed on a vertical surface.
2. Don't cover over the bait tray with the label - it's helpful to peek in and see how well attended your ant feeder is. While it is transparent enough that you can pick it up to look at it, it would be more convenient and perhaps more effective if you didn't need to move it.
3. To open the tray, you must cut (with scissors) across a marked area. It's not entirely clear exactly what - or how big to cut. It may not matter, but more opening for the ants to get in and out means more taking the bait back to the colony.
Ideally you'll also find the place closest to the nest (usually outdoors) and bait them out there, too.
How effective is this? I bought 3 separate products and put them all out. I knew Terro would work because I first put a dab of honey and a dab of butter in their path. They swarmed the honey and ignored the butter. But nonetheless I also put out AMDRO, and Combat side by side. They ignored the AMDRO which is billed for "sweet or starch ants". Ignored it! They ignored the other bait too, Combat - but they lapped up the Terro like free drinks at a biker bar.
You WANT to make it as easy as possible for as many as possible ants to eat it up. That might include drops on tape that you put on vertical surfaces. Don't let those drops dry out though. Feed them like they were your favorite house guests.
And before long - if you are patient they will be dead. ALL of them. Hooray.
By the way, if you are wondering how a bunch of heavy drinking ants take the poison back to the colony: they regurgitate in much the way that birds feed their young. It's called trophallaxis. It looks like they're kissing. Sorry if you didn't want to know that. ;-)
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