TERRO Ant Killer Liquid

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• 6 convenient, ready-to-use bait stations with fast-acting formula
• Liquid ant killer bait station kills all common household ants
• No drips, spills or mess; for indoor and outdoor use. Place baits near ant trails or where ants are numerous. Use all 6 baits to enure sufficient supply for the ants.
• Patented design eliminates handling of chemicals and prevents bait from drying out
• Contains borax

Product Description

Size: 1-Pack

Product Description

6 Pack, Ant Killer II Liquid Ant Bait With Borax, Pre-Filled, Ready To Use Bait Will Not Spill Or Drip, Controls Sweet Eating Ants, For Use In The Kitchen Basement, Garage, Work Area, Bedroom, Etc.

From the Manufacturer

The same proven Terro liquid formulation, in a convenient, xsmn pre-filled bait station. The patented design eliminates handling of chemicals and prevents drying out.

Product Details

Size: 1-Pack

• Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 9.8 x 7.5 inches ; 5.1 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Domestic Shipping: Item can be shipped within U.S.
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• Origin: China
• ASIN: B000HJBKMQ
• Item model number: 300
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3,816 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #151 in Patio, Lawn & Garden (See Top 100 in Patio, Lawn & Garden)
• #5 in Patio, Lawn & Garden > Pest Control > Traps

How Does It Work?

This is a bait product, so initially you're going to see more ants—lots more. Here's why—as ant foragers look for food, they are attracted to the sweet liquid ant bait. Once foraging worker ants find the liquid bait, they consume it and drop what is called a 'trail pheromone' back to the nest that lets all the other worker ants know the location of the food supply. This is why you home depot black friday 2015 will initially see more ants when using the liquid ant baits.

While the active ingredient in the bait will ultimately kill the worker ant, it slowly interferes with the ant's digestive system so the worker has time to get back and share the ant bait with the rest of the colony. This slow kill is needed to allow time for the foraging ants to make several trips to the bait and deliver enough bait to the rest of the colony. This is the only way to get rid of both the ants you see and the ants you don't.

Because this is a bait product, it is important to eliminate all other food sources in the area. This will ensure that the ants aren't tempted to eat anything but the (deadly) liquid ant bait. The liquid ant bait station should remain as undisturbed as possible while the ants are actively feeding on it.

Where to Place Ant Bait Stations

Simply place the liquid ant bait stations near ant trails or areas where ants are numerous. It's also a good idea to stop ants in their tracks by placing additional bait stations anywhere ants may try to infiltrate your home. For best results, use all six bait stations to ensure a sufficient supply for the unsuspecting ants to feast on.

Keep your eye on the bait stations to black friday tablet deals  monitor activity but resist the temptation to interfere when you witness the ants coming in droves to feast on the bait. Your patience will pay off as you watch your ant infestation dwindle then disappear.

When necessary, replace with additional bait stations when the first set is depleted. Once your ant problem is under control, replace the bait stations every three months as prevention to keep the ants from marching back into your home.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: I just placed several TERRO Liquid Ant Baits in my kitchen and it's attracting more ants, not killing them! What's going on?

A: You have nothing to worry about! Initially, you will see more ants. As ant foragers look for food, they are attracted to the sweet liquid in the bait which they consume and carry back to feed to the rest of the colony. On the way back to the nest, the ants drop what it called a 'trail pheromone', letting the other ants know where the tasty food supply is. In turn, these ants follow the trail to the bait which explains why you initially see more ants

Q: I've been using TERRO Liquid Ant Bait for the past few days. When should I remove the bait stations?

A: We recommend leaving the bait out for three to four days after signs of ant activity diminish. If no more ants appear, remove the bait, relax and enjoy being ant-free!

Q: The ants in my kitchen are avoiding the TERRO Ant Killer – can you explain why?

A: As long as the bait is in liquid form (has not hardened or thickened) it should be effective because the active ingredient does not diminish over time. The ants may have found another food source, by seeking a grease-based vs. sugar-based food, or be in the breeding cycle of their colony and not interested in eating.

Q: How long does it take to eliminate an ant colony with TERRO Liquid Ant Bait?

A: The ants consume large quantities of the bait and then return to the nest and share it with the rest of the colony, killing the ants you see and the ants you don't. This process can take up to two weeks, depending on the size of the infestation. Each ant that consumes the bait will die within 24 - 48 hours. It is important to leave the bait as undisturbed as possible while the ants are actively feeding on it. You should replace it only if it becomes inaccessible to the ants, or empty.

- After a frustrating week with Raid and Hotshot ant baits (in the end, i opened them carefully and the bait cakes were utterly untouched!), I tracked down this product at a select Walgreens. We cracked two traps and it was like free beer and pizza for ants. I really enjoyed watching them line up to imbibe deeply the rich toxic borate brew. And then scurry, nay stagger, back to their nest to share their plunder with their unsuspecting siblings and the mother queen. Yes, drink my friends. Drink deeply.

- I apparently don't live in a house. I live in a wii u black friday 2015 giant block of Swiss cheese. We've been battling an intermittent ant problem ever since we moved in. The first one we managed to combat with gap filler, but I think there must have been an offshoot of that colony that moved and set up shop underneath the edge of my carpet where it meets the kitchen tile. One morning I walked into my kitchen to find a full-on ant orgy in progress in front of my fridge. It was downright Bacchanalian and scarred me for life. I'm glad my children weren't witness to such debauchery.

I thought I found another gap where they might have been getting in, so I plugged it with more expanding foam, and the problem seem to go away for a bit, but they were just laying low, formulating their next plan of attack. Ants started trickling out from beneath the carpet edge again, only this time I was done with that namby pamby gap filler. It was time to break out the big guns. I Googled "Best Ant Bait" and the first thing it pulled up was this product page for the Terro (which is only one "r" short of Terror--coincidence? I think not). I only needed to read a few of the reviews and I was convinced. I grabbed a box from a local hardware store (sorry, Amazon, even with Prime shipping, my problem was far too vexing to wait even one more hour), set them in all the strategic rendezvous points. Then I waited. It took a couple hours. And then the purge began . . .

I've used other ant baits before to limited success. Most just don't do a very good job at attracting the critters. It's like they're hip to the Raid jive. But the other reviews about this product do not lie. Never in my life have I seen the crack frenzy that soon began, when literally hundreds of ants started pouring into these traps. I could see them writhing around in orgasmic euphoria. I could hear them laughing and clinking their glasses and making awkward late night sexual propositions with complete strangers. It would be like if a giant chocolate cheesecake had fallen out of the sky right in front of me. I would probably act similarly, rolling around in it, gorging myself silly, completely unaware that God decided to save himself the trouble of flooding the planet to wipe out the human vermin and instead decided to rain down poison disguised as dessert. Noah 2.0, I am not.

Admittedly, I do feel a bit like God right now. It's been fun watching this microcosm of the apocalypse unfold with an aloof Mona Lisa grin on my face. I am a terrible God, but I am benevolent. These creatures died thinking they were having the best day of their lives, and that's better than most of us get in this crazy world.

Thank you, Terro. You are now my #1 choice for ant genocide.

UPDATE: 24 hours later -- Only a few stragglers remain. They're staggering around helplessly, their bodies undoubtedly full of their dead, poisoned comrades. The bait traps that were once full of ants are now empty. I don't care to imagine what happened to all of them, but since I'm a writer, I probably will. I saw a few ants in my downstairs bathroom and set one of the traps in there. A few ants became a few hundred. More death throes are commencing. LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR!

- please read my updates below

JUNE 20, 2013:About a month ago I noticed a couple of ants here and there in my bathroom, undoubtedly attracted to the moisture. I'd smash them and get on with my day. There were too few for me to care--maybe 2 or 3 a day. But it was everyday, so I got some Boric Acid powder and sprinkled it along the baseboards. When ants crawl over the boric acid, it sticks to their legs, and then when they clean their mouths with their legs, they accidentally ingest some of the boric acid and it kills them. Well, that's great, except it only kills the ants that make contact with it. And I'd still see a couple of ants everyday. I didn't want to spray with Raid because my bathroom is right next to my bedroom.
Well, the other day I was carrying a bath towel to my laundry room. I noticed that an ant was on the towel(I assume to try to drink whatever moisture was on the towel), and I shook it off while I was in the kitchen, which is on the way to the laundry room. The ant fell to the ground, but because ants are tiny and it was a little dark, I couldn't find it. I thought to myself "oh who cares? It's just one ant. It'll probably just crawl back to the bathroom." Well the next morning I saw hundreds of ants in my kitchen, right next to where that one damn ant fell. They were coming from the baseboard behind my refrigerator and made a pathway into my garbage can. I was rushing to get to work, so all I could do was Raid the line of ants and throw out the trash. I knew that I had a serious ant problem either under the house or in the walls that I couldn't see, and I was getting really sick of it. If they want to pay for half my mortgage, i'd let them stay. But this is MY house! I had never tried an ant bait before. Growing up my dad would always use spray pesticides whenever we had ants, so that's what I am used to. But because of the iphone 6s black Friday  vicinity of my bedroom to the bathroom, I had to do something different.

Before I got home from work, I bought these Terro Ant Baits at Home Depot. The way that this bait works is that the ants drink the bait, and via trophallaxis(regurgitation to feed other ants), the poison spreads out in the colony. I didn't want to attract more ants into the kitchen, so at about 7pm on June 20th, I placed one bait in the bathroom, against a wall about 4 feet away from where I saw an ant. Within a minute, that ant walked into the trap. It left for a while and within 5 minutes there were 20 ants all around the bait. Within one hour, I saw hundreds of ants making a line from near the door to the bait. One of the advantages of a bait is that you can see where the ants are coming from. Just follow the line. These little fother muckers were coming from a tiny hole where the door meets the floor, so they must have been under the house in the crawl space. Once the ants are eradicated, I can simply caulk up that little hole. All night there were hundreds or thousands of ants. Afraid I would run out of fluid in the bait, I added another bait in their path. Quickly, both bait traps were being visited by the ants.
I went to bed at midnight, and there were still the same amount of ants. Hard to fall asleep when you know there are hundreds of ants just 12 feet away from you. But the ants didn't stray from their path, so I felt ok.
This morning at 7am, I noticed about a 25% reduction in the # of ants. I went to work. I got home at 8pm. I see only about 10 ants now. All alive, except for the dead ones in the traps, but they are moving slowly and I can't imagine they'll live much longer. I see zero ants coming out of that hole. So it's been a wild ride! I went from 3 ants at 7pm prior to the trap, then hundreds by midnight while the traps were out, and now we're down to about 10 dying ants. I imagine that by the time I go to bed tonight, they'll all be gone. This product is working faster than I thought it would. The Terro website says that it takes the individual ant 24-48 hours from ingestion to death. They must have spread the poisonous meal around pretty quickly in their colony!
Tips: 1. One bait trap should be plenty. I checked one of the traps when I got home and it was still almost full of poisonous fluid. Remember, there were hundreds of ants drinking from this bait. So i'd say just use one for the first 24 hours. If you have more ants by the second day, then go ahead and put out another trap. 2. Once ants have found your bait and are drinking from it, don't move it. It seems to make them not want to come back to it.
I will leave the traps out another couple of days just in case. If I don't come back to edit this review, you can assume it worked perfectly, and fast!
UPDATE JUNE 24th: I have left the traps out since the 20th, and each day i still see a couple of ants in the bathroom, hovering around the bait trap, but they won't go inside. I'm not sure why. Today, about 4 days after my initial review, I saw a few more ants, like 5 - 10 in the bathroom. I wasn't sure if these were stragglers that survived, or if these were part of another strong colony. I actually saw one ant go inside the trap and quickly come out. The traps have been out for about 5 days and there are lots of dead ants inside. My guess is that the poisonous juice doesn't have the same yummy taste with dead ants swimming in it, so the ants have stopped coming for it. So I threw out those 5-day old traps and put out a fresh one about half hour ago. Guess what? HUNDREDS of ants again! I don't know if these are from the same original colony or if I have 2 colonies going on. They're coming from the same place near the door. So I have a 3rd tip: After a few days when it looks like your ant colony is dead, replace the old baits with a fresh one. It could be that the reason you have no more ants is because your bait just doesn't taste good anymore. The old bait wasn't dried out, there were just a lot of dead ants in it. I think the instructions should have more tips instead of having us figure these things out. I'll update in a couple of days.
UPDATE JUNE 26th: I am downgrading my initial 5-star rating to a 3. My problem with the trap is the trap itself, not the poison. I've been applying drops of the poison onto tin foil and ants keep coming, day after day, hundreds of them. You see, with the plastic bait trap, ants stop coming to it after a day or two. I don't know why, but my guess is that it just doesn't have the same smell/taste after a couple of days so the ants don't want it anymore. With the drops, you can just place drops on tinfoil twice a day. That keeps the poison fresh and the ants keep coming. I have a suspicion that what many reviewers experienced was not the colony being eradicated, but rather that the ants wanted fresh bait, so they stopped coming. I still have hundreds of ants after about 6 days of using this stuff. I'll update once the ants are gone for good(I hope!)
July 1st, 2013: Today is day 12 I believe, and the same pattern is repeating. The number of ants seem to dissipate by the end of the day, but as soon as I put down fresh drops, they keep coming. In 5 days I will be gone for 3 weeks. I'm praying they're all dead before I leave, or else i'll have to use Raid and just caulk up the tiny hole they're coming from.
JULY 3rd: Ok, here we are, 2 weeks exactly from the day i started using this. I can finally say the ants are gone!!! But i ended up using the terro liquid in a bottle, which is the same stuff that's in the traps. You HAVE to keep putting down fresh drops even if it looks like the old drops haven't dried out. The fresh drops must have a stronger scent that attracts the ants. I contacted customer support a few days ago and stated that after 11 days, i still had many ants. They said that most likely i must have attracted more than one colony. They said to be diligent and patient. And 3 days later, i am finally ant free. So i will give the liquid itself a 5, but the trap a 3.
July 5th: Still gone :) I am now going to caulk up the hole and go on my vacation!

- Every year we get an onslaught of large black ants in the kitchen at the beginning of spring. The first stretch of warm weather, with 4-5 days over 60°, will trigger the invasion. I've tried all of the home remedies in the past (borax, baking soda, etc.) with limited success, and spraying inside or out only seems to move the infestation to another part of the house. After reading many good reviews of Terro products, we decided to give the bait stations a try.

I followed the instructions religiously, placing the stations in the highest traffic areas. Within 12 hours the kitchen and dining room became a total horror show, with hundreds of big black ants swarming the traps. There were so many of them that you could hear them entering and exiting the stations as they crawled over the little plastic ramp. I cautioned my wife and son not to swat them, just let them do their thing and allow the poison to take effect. Deployment + 24 hours was the peak of activity, with trails of workers swarming and surrounding the traps. At 36 hours the carnage was becoming apparent as there were a lot of workers dragging the dead and dying to and fro. By 48 hours there were only a few pathetically convulsing stragglers left. 60 hours, nothing at all.

The genius of this product is that it takes advantage of the ant's natural behaviors and tendencies. They eat their fill and return to the nest to share the toxic bounty. Because the bait is slow-acting, the ants unwittingly spread the poison throughout the colony. Moreover, when a worker ant dies outside the nest, other workers retrieve the body so that it can be eaten, distributing the bait even more thoroughly in the nest.

My advice: follow the instructions. Make sure you place the traps in high-traffic trails, and then just leave them and the ants alone. Don't use any other sprays and don't disturb the ant's swarming and trailing. Leave them to their industrious ways and the little buggers will do all of the hard work for you.

FYI, I rarely write reviews, but I am so impressed by the effectiveness of this product that I simply had to share our experience.