Advance 375a Select Granular Ant Bait - 8 oz. ant Killer,ant Poison

After googling "best ant bait" and watching testimonies on YouTube, I now own both the Advance 375A bait for all ants, and the Advance Carpenter Ant Bait. They're both the same product, but the carpenter bait has bigger granules. We moved onto property where the soil is sandy and our yard was infested with all types of ants, including carpenter ants in the trees and around the buildings. (If you have carpenter ants, I recommend an e-book on Amazon that I read concerning carpenter ants. It's only a couple of dollars and can be read within 20 minutes or so. It's titled: "Yikes! I've Got Carpenter Ants! A homeowner's guide to solving carpenter ant infestations." By David Kiley. He shares the effective strategy for ridding your home of carpenter ants, and it's not that hard. He recommends the Advance Carpenter Ant Bait for protein and Maxforce Fleet Ant Bait Gel by Bayer for sweet carbohydrate.) Anyway, back to my review: people have given this Advance 375A negative reviews, but I heard an ant expert say that ants go through stages where they will look for protein when their queen needs protein for her eggs and larvae, which is what this bait is, and when she doesn't need protein, they'll look for carbohydrates such as melon, which is where the sweet ant bait comes into play. (And that sweet bait is Maxforce; believe me.) I've used the Advance Carpenter bait on the carpenters here, the 375A on all the other ants, and they all gobbled up the baits because at the time, they wanted protein. Ants were feverish over this bait, ants of all sizes down to teeny ants. Some ran around in circles, seemingly beside themselves, but actually marking the spot with their scent when they found the bait, then grabbed it and hauled it away. I followed and watched a teeny, tiny ant haul a chunk of bait quite a distance across the yard to its nest. Within a day most nests were dormant; some took several days. The carpenter ants took all of their Advance Carpenter Ant Bait each night, so I'd replenish the next day, and within a week of replenishing, all carpenter activity completely stopped. (I should have given bigger portions; didn't know.) Fortunately, I hit this at a time when they all wanted protein. Surely, it must be a case of timing for the people who didn't have success with the bait. Starting in spring, the tiny brown ants which make little dirt mounds love this 375A, and haul it into their nest, but the medium sized black ants will ignore it one day, and go for it the next. What they do eat at that time is carbs, and you can test that by placing a piece of melon at the opening of their nest to see how they go for it. If they do, you can remove it and squirt a glob of Maxforce Gel (of which you've already ordered and have ready), in its place; they'll go right for it. Glob the gel at all openings where you see them come and go. The next day, there should be zero activity. If they are still active, then it's a huge nest and one more application or two will wipe them out, and it DOES wipe them out, as does the 375A if they want protein. As for carpenters, it's the same hit and miss between carbs and protein. I was diligent to do as the instructions on the container of 375A says and sprinkled it around the yard at 30 day intervals. I sprinkled by hand throughout the summer, for new ants crop up, but eventually, they stopped cropping up, and by the end of last summer, this yard transformed from infested to nearly zero ant activity. I have never used the gel bait on the tiny brown ants of which there were hundreds of little nests all over the place. One couldn't afford to purchase the gel bait for hundreds of nests, plus it wasn't necessary, for the granular 375A did the job; they loved it. I've only used the gel on carpenters if they took it, and the medium sized black or red ants if they took it. I have used these baits in my yard for the past two summers, and now it's May again, it's warm, and I am elated that no carpenters are anywhere around my house, none have appeared in the kitchen which they always did at this time, and as I walk the property, I see just a fraction of ant activity compared to before. I've now walked the property sprinkling 375A, and the ants are hauling it around. I found a few black ant nests and gave them a sampling of 375A and Maxforce gel, and they took some of the grains of 375A but globbed onto the gel. I don't see ants around or on the trees, nor around my house, nor around the shop. Of course, new ants will arrive, but there will never be a problem thanks to the two fantastic products of Advance Ant Bait and Bayer Maxforce gel. Over the last two summers, altogether I used 2 3/4 of the 2 lb. containers of Advance 375A, nearly one 2 lb. container of Advance Carpenter bait, and not quite 2 boxes of Maxforce Gel. This comes to around $258.00 spread over the past two summers. That vs. the cost of hiring a pest control company to deal with carpenter ants, what a savings, plus, they wouldn't have been able to rid the entire property of all the ants as these products have. So, "Thank you! " Advance company, and Bayer Maxforce, from the bottom of my heart, and "Thank you" Mr. Kiley, if you're reading this, for your educational book and information. Posting pictures now of our yard area. Everywhere we stepped there was an ant nest, and every tree you see in the picture was full of carpenters and other ants. Our shop, our house, which you don't see, had carpenter activity all around and inside as well. Now, nothing!!! Hallelujah!!! PS: For anyone like me who wonders just what to do and how to do it, I'm posting a picture of my container of bait and the makeshift flags I placed near the black ant nests so that I could check back. I simply tore off a piece of flagging tape and stabbed through it as I stabbed a skewer into the ground. Quick and easy, and marks the spot! I hauled the Maxforce Gel and the flag making items with me in a bag. The 375A is a bit smelly and the container says not to inhale, so because I didn't want to wear a mask, I held the container behind my back and reached behind with the other gloved hand to grab fingerfuls of bait. Spreading by the finger full is the best way not to waste the bait.

If the ants are ignoring your sweet bait try this. They quickly eat this up and the colony was gone within 72 hours. I had one very large colony the lasted about 10 days but using this and a sweet bait got rid them. Overall very effective.

This bait works when others didn't. Only took a few minutes and they was carrying the bait off. Been 3 weeks now and hardly seen the tiny ants, like they was before lots and lots. Maybe see 10 all week. Definitely worth the price very effective and easy to use. Bottle doesn't leak at least mine didn't leaking doesn't spray it's chunky like coarse peppet.

helped me eliminate ant issues

Works Great!

This is mostly a tentative rating. **Updated rating at bottom. The last couple of years, we've had a small, quiet nest growing under our driveway. I've never seen them leave the nest farther than a couple of inches from the entrance. I have never seen a trail, but then again, I'm not sure what kind of ants they are. They're bigger than the usual fare I've dealt with in the past, and they have some truly monstrous members that I've seen wandering around a couple of times (like 1/3 inch long beasts). I've not been sure what to expect from these buggers, but I learned that they are more violently defensive of their nest than I've seen in other species of local ants when I placed some Terro ant stakes near them. Unfortunately, they never took the bait. This had never happened to me before. From this experience, I did some research. I learned that ants have different nutritional requirements depending on season and nest development. Sometimes sugar-based baits (such as Terro) work like a charm. Other times, a protein-based bait will do the trick. I've never had to use protein-based bait before... ...until today! I got Advance 375a delivered this afternoon, and sprinkled a small amount near the opening to the nest. They took it!! So I found other openings to the nest, and sprinkled some more. Snatched up and taken inside!! I spread a little more through the openings and they've been coming out in droves for the granules. I've never seen such voracious ants. I have high hopes for this product, and I will update my review with the end result when I can! ********* UPDATE *********** My product was delivered and applied on May 24. I'm updating this on June 9, just a little over 2 weeks after first application. The ants kept taking the bait each time I applied it, but about a week in, they started spending more time spread out over the driveway. Huge winged ants kept coming out, but so were dead ants, brought out and disposed of by the colony. Some of the winged ants were dead, too. A chunk of the ants apparently broke off from the main driveway colony and migrated to the backyard one night. They hadn't built a new nest, but I made sure to apply more bait where they looked like they were settling. Now that it's been about 2 weeks, I've not seen much activity like before in either location, with the exception of new dead ants being brought out of the driveway. I wound up using the whole container of bait for my issue, but I think it's worked! I have another one on hand for the remaining ants. My final determination: it takes time and many applications to fill the ants' food stores, but it's absolutely worth buying if your ants aren't taking sugar-based baits.

This is very effective for any issues. We had run ins with carpenter ants in side the house and even have some smaller ants in the garage that I wasn't aware of. Sprinkled the bait around the outside of house and garage. Target specifically wooden area (I have a lot pile) as these are where the ants are likely to nest around. Visually saw both any types carry off these baits away pretty much immediately. Overtime saw less of these ants. Sprinkled some more over time as I see more ants (only outside of the home), never had any issues in side any more! Ants carry these to their nest and the idea is it would kill off the nest, especially if ingested by the queen. No real mess, even in the garage after a day, the ants carries them all away and what are left I can't really visually find them. Effort to use is the time you sprinkle these around the home and for the cost and results, I give this a 5 stars!