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

We've used this for 2 infestations (same bottle) over 2 years at our NC home. The first infestation was a larger ant species (didn't identify them), while the second was the miniscule Argentine Ant. You can test your ant's diet using a bit of peanut butter. If they come back in droves for that, these granules will work for them. Put this stuff near the peanut butter and they'll slowly transition to the granules, as they seem to like this even more than peanut butter. If not, just take the peanut butter away and they'll switch soon enough.My wife spotted about 10 of the tiny foodies scouting our bathroom for a nice place to eat. After finding the entrance to our pop-up soup kitchen, I served up our finest all-you-can-eat buffet to our first customers. They gave the food a huge thumbs up, so we hoped they'd go tell all their friends and leave us a 5-star review on Google. We were ecstatic to see business pick up so much that we had customers lined up as far as we could see; we even had to open another buffet right next door!We did encounter a slight problem with our patrons in that our portion sizes were a bit larger than they were able to handle, so we had to allow plate sharing. But, we have the best customers! No one even asked to see a manager when they couldn't get out our main entrance with their food. They quickly found another doorway about four feet away that we didn't even know we had and they just started using that one!While we had to keep the buffet open 24 hours, even while we slept, it was well worth the effort to ensure none of our devoted customers left hungry. Not only did they not clean us out of all our food while we weren't looking, but their friends kept coming all through the night. When we arrived at our little restaurant the next morning, we noticed our business had slowed to a crawl, with just one or two patrons still hanging out. By the way they were walking, though, it was clear we maybe shouldn't have left the liquor out while we slept. A few, apparently, even passed out while trying to get back to their tables!All their friends must've had more than enough of our excellent food, since no one's come back for thirds yet. Still, we want to ensure no one in this community ever goes hungry, so we'll leave the buffet open for 24-48 more hours before closing down our soup kitchen for a while. Never fear, though! Should another community be starving, we have plenty more food to provide and will gladly reopen our little pop-up restaurant wherever it's needed!

Thatching and velvety tree ants are aggressive biters in the Pacific Northwest. Sprinkle this product in a few places in their path and watch them do the heavy lifting to take this bait to the nest. I've seen a colony disappear in one day but most colonies take 2 to 4 applications. Then they are gone for the season. Excellent product.

Had quite a few carpenter ants coming in to my second story master bathroom so I started addressing those ants with Terro, which seems to have worked well so far. Have only had one or two stragglers that have been coming in over the last few days. However, I wanted to try to address the colony and identified this stump with quite a bit of activity. I previously purchased and spread some Amdro (you can see piles of it in the pics) that the ants didn’t seem to like that much.Advance 375a on the other hand seems to be doing a good job of attracting the ants and they are taking it back in to the nest. First pic is when I set some out on a piece of cardboard a night ago, second pic is this morning. They pretty much took all of the Advance and still plenty of Amdro that hasn’t been touched. I’m not sure how fast Advance works but Im seeing much less activity already today. I put out more on the cardboard so we’ll see what happens tomorrow.Hopefully the combo of Terro inside and Advance outside will give me some longterm relief from carpenter ants!

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 quirt 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 by hand, with gloves on, near ant nests at 30 day intervals 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, it's not going to stay this way, but it is this way for now, 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 hand is the best way not to waste the bait.