Terro Liquid Get Rid Of Ants In The Kitchen By Joan Young on - Updated Oct 15, 2011
If you have ants in your house that love to find the sugar bowl, drips of soda or anything sweet, Terro will corral them, “treat” them, and eventually kill the nest.
This form of Terro comes in a small squeeze bottle. It is a clear viscous liquid. You squeeze a large drop of the product on a piece of cardboard or foil and then place it where the ants like to travel. I usually keep a spot of it in the space between my kitchen sink and the wall.
It may take a few hours for the ants to find it, but I've seen them find it in only a few minutes if there happened to be one or two ants nearby when I placed the bait out. As you can see in the picture, they love this product!
You will not see them drop dead in your kitchen. What Terro does is allow the worker ants (the ones you see) to live long enough to take the poison back to the nest where they share it with others. This will eventually kill the entire nest. Other products that only kill the ants on contact can not do this.
If you know the routes the ants take to get into your house you can put bait dots outside. However, it must be put where pets and children (and any other animals you care about) can not get at it.
I usually just keep one bait spot going at a time because I am patient, and it keeps them so occupied that they don't bother other food very much, but if you really can't stand seeing any ants around you would need to be more aggressive and put out more bait drops. Nevertheless, it may take a week or two before the entire nest is destroyed.
The package says it's effective against the following ants: Argentine, ghost, cornfield, pavement, acrobat, white-footed, little black, odorous house, crazy, big-headed, and any other sweet-eating ants. The active ingredient is sodium tetraborate decahydrate (borax) 5.4%
The only reason I did not rate it as a 5 is that for people who want every ant gone NOW, this is not the product for you.
Terro comes in many different forms. I find this one very easy to use and there's not a ton of extra packaging- always a positive feature in my book.
We needed a new bottle of this, and I was having trouble finding it. It may be more available seasonally, because I just found some at Meijer yesterday. Horray! This is so economical, and it really works. I don't like all the extra packaging and stuff that the other forms have.
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Terro Liquid Ant Killer - 1 oz. Purchased at: Scottville Variety Price: $4.99
Thanks for sharing your experiences with this ant killer from Terro. I have to search for it to get rid of these nasty ants. I am impressed to know that we can get rid of the ants without making our floors dirty.
Sounds effective. I use something else for my ant problem in my garage, but this sounds much cleaner and better to use indoors.
i'm definitely interested in this product as i have ant problems. thanks for the review.
I used to mix peanut butter with some Terro to kill protein ants.
I will look for this, we have always had issues in this house with little black ants in our kitchen and main bathroom.
I have been using a brand for five years now and it was really good. However, I notice that it does not work AT ALL anymore. I wonder why. I might try this brand if available here. Thanks for sharing.
this stuff is incredible! we use it!!