Advance Carpenter Ant Bait-8 oz
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Advance Carpenter Ant Bait-8 oz
- Specially formulated to kill carpenter ants
- Effective on Acrobat, Bigheaded, Pavement and other ants.
- Can be used indoors and outdoors to control the ant population
- Ready-to-use product
Tagged with: Advance • Bait8 • carpenter
Filed under: Carpenter Ants
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Die Carpenter ants, Die! But do they want protein or sugar?,
We have been plagued by carpenter ants for the last 2 years when I inadvertently brought back a colony in some firewood I collected. I found the main colony last year and got rid of it, but all of this year we have been finding carpenter ants throughout the house. I went searching for a product to get rid of them to preserve the house and marital bliss and I discovered “Advance Carpenter Ant Bait”. So I thought I would try it, since they said it smells fishy and the ants were definitely raiding my cat’s tuna dish (she gets fresh tuna twice a day yes, spoiled cat!
So I bought it and followed the directions. Hmm… No luck for two weeks, the ants completely ignored the granules. But then my dad made a discovery. He had put a bowl of cherries on the counter top. And he went to munch on them and discovered they were covered in carpenter ants! So I put the cherries in a bowl with the ant poison and waited. After about 2 or 3 days we still had lots of ants visiting the bowl, but not quite as many as before. After two weeks they had noticeably decreased, but there were still a number present. So I went digging more on the web to figure out why they were eating the cherries, but not the poison as other peoples review suggested they would do. This is what I found out. Carpenter ants like either protein or sugar, but not both at the same time. So some weeks they will only look for protein, hence why they were raiding my cat’s tuna dish. But my timing on buying the product was bad, because the day I set the poison out, the carpenter ants switched back to looking for sugar. Hence my dad’s cherry bowl covered with ants. The “Advance Carpenter Ant Bait” was ignored because it is protein based.
So I went looking on the web again and discovered this “Maxforce Carpenter Ant Bait Gel” and ordered it, since it is the same poison but was sugar based. And wouldn’t you know that the day it arrived, was also the day after the last carpenter ant died from walking through the protein based poison.
It took about 2 – 3 weeks for the carpenter ants walking through the protein based poison to all die off. It has been 3 weeks since the last ant was seen, so I am assuming they are all dead now.
So I would order both products if you have a carpenter ant problem or if one does not work order the other because I believe the people who do not get good results with one product just have the wrong “food” presented to the ants and if they switch products the ants would then get the poison faster. That or do what I did. Put cherries in the protein based product or tuna in the sugar based product and let the ants walk through the poison. It will take about 2 – 3 weeks to kill them off that way, but that is how it worked for me.
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|Advance Carpenter ant bait review,
I had a very bad infestation of carpenter ants, which came up through cracks from my crawl space. There were none around the foundation or outside at all. I consulted the book “Ask the Bugman” by Richard Fagerlund, which recommended Advance Carpenter Ant Bait. I purchased it through Amazon and it came in in three days. I swept it into tiny cracks around my baseboard and covered the bait with a towel. The ants slowly, over the space of a week, quit coming. I am quite pleased with the bait.
RRBV
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|Carpenter Ants Ignored This Stuff,
Sprinkled a 12 inch wide band along the rear of my house, including the patio.
Sat for awhile and observed as the carpenter ants walked right across the stuff, not picking up a single piece to bring back to the colony, as is supposed to be the case.
The container was also only half full, so not much product for the dollar.
In the end, after two weeks and 3 applications, this is a completely useless product.
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