terro is the best stuff ever!

[msaeger]

We have ants in the house every summer and I try different stuff to get rid of them it has all failed until now.

Last night I see ants in the pantry so I put a terro liquid ant bait in there. Soon after I see a huge line of ants flowing across the floor to the pantry. This goes on for a few hours. This morning I see no ants it's freaking unbelievable. I keep looking around and haven't seen any all day.

I hid a few around the house in other places I saw ants but I think the one would have done the job.

I am sure I am late to the party here but now I know what to do next time I see an ant.

 

[scott47429]

where did you get it

 

[RobertBrown]

You can get it at lowes, Home depot or Walmart, probably any hardware store.
It's very effective, inexpensive and not very toxic ( Boric Acid and sugar).
It works best on Pharaoh ants or the very, very small ants, ants that eat sugar.
When these ants get in your kitchen they are difficult to control because they are so close to your food.... and poison is.......well, poison!
It is cheap and goes a long ways, I bought some over 10 years ago and used very little because it's so effective. I still have it and I think it costs around 2$ a bottle....you only need a few drops and your problem is solved....if you have the right kind of ants.
Good stuff!
msaeger is right

 

[msaeger]

I got it at menards. They are little plastic things you cut the end off of which makes a ramp for the ants to get into the poison. It's all sealed up except for the hole you cut.

About 6 bucks for 6 stations.

 

[possum]

The big box stores have it in some form or another but not as a rule is it easy to find the form you want. Keep looking until you get what you want, it does work. All I could find local this spring was a bottle with the silly little cardboard paper parts you put a drop on. But it worked. The bottles are good for putting some into a crack in a floor, or foundation, or in a five gallon bucket laying on its side under a porch. In a window sill works good as well as along the baseboard where the carpet meets a corner of a room. The packs you open and leave out work the best as they last a long time. The outdoor packs I have never been able to find as of yet. Home depot as a rule has the indoor packs. Menards at least around here sometimes has the liguid and other times does not. Do it Best stores around here have the small bottles. Dollar General sometimes has the bottles. They say you can make your own from borax and syrup. I have never tried. Around here if they become a major problem the pest control company comes over and treats your house for termites. That kills the ants for some time as a rule.

 

[msaeger]

Getting the liquid and putting it in cracks outside is a good idea. The menards I was at had the outdoor ones too. I didn't see the liquid but I didn't look either.

I tried that powder you are supposed to put around the foundation and that didn't do anything.

 

[bones66]

Well I've gotten mixed results with it and have used all variations, even used the granular perimeter type of terro that you spread around the foundation. Upon first site of an ant around the counter I apply the drops. I have had them eat for a couple or three days. The majority of ants disappear by then but then stragglers continue for 2-3 weeks. Stragglers I mean two or three but some days maybe 6-10 ants around the bait or trail area to the bait. At first I thought another colony had found the bait but I really feel there would be more ants than the few stragglers. As you said when they find it they hit it hard. Sometimes I've put out multiple stations to allow room for all to eat.

 

[msaeger]

Compared to what I had a few a day is nothing.

 

[bones66]

Good Point! I didn't mean to make it sound all bad, not using poison is a big plus for sure. I was only stating that I have gotten mixed results in some instances. Some of which I didn't quite understand?:smile:

 

[HiYoCheeto]

Been using Terro for years, best stuff I've found for most ants. They feed on the sugar, then take it back to the nest and feed it to the queen. Within 2 weeks the colony dies off. As always worked for me, even on carpenter ants.