Vitax Nippon Ant Killer Liquid Insect Control,

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To treat an individual mound, just dump 4 tablespoons of Advion near the mound and the foraging ants will take care of the rest. Still, you should remove kids and pets from the area during the application and keep them clear as you individually treat mounds. Further complicating matters is the fact that, over time, the soybean oil will go rancid, and fire ants will no longer be attracted to the bait.

This is the older stuff which worked for me in past, unfortunately the liquid within seems thick or dried out. From location to location and species to species, many variables affect ant behavior, so we did not run any large-scale tests for efficacy. Plus the extension tube is the perfect tool to inject the spray into wall voids and small openings in the infested wood.Other active ingredients were either slower (hydramethylnon reached 100% on day 12; fipronil, day 28) or simply never reached full control (lambda-cyhalothrin and bifenthrin). Ramsey noted that some species, such as pharaoh ants, will split their colony if sprayed, “and you’ll spread the infestation around your house. As we said above, this method kills only individual ants and does nothing against the colony as a whole.

It’s also important to minimise the availability of other food sources such as sugary foods and spillages to ensure bait intake and increase control. He lives in a very demanding 250-year-old farmhouse and spent four years gutting and rebuilding his previous home. 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.Ants come into our living spaces looking for food and, once they find it, are difficult to get rid of. It consists of a sugary bait specially formulated to appeal to black ants - worker ants take the sweet bait back to the nest and feed it to the whole colony.