Maxforce Quantum 0.03% Imidacloprid Ant Control Liquid Bait with 10 stations, 120 Gram Bottle

An exterminator gave me a tube of this stuff when our old house got infested with sugar ants. You wouldn't believe; garbage was regularly taken out, food was sealed up, not left out, not left in bedrooms, we vacuumed constantly. The house was spotless! Yet these little guys were everywhere, all over the entire house, it was madness. A few drops around the house and within maybe a day or less they were all gone. The ants drink it up, feed it to the queen, and the entire colony dries up and dies! Awesome! I buy a fresh tube of this stuff every few years if an any problem arises, and to share with friends. All the other ant poisons just kill the ants you see, this kills them at the SOURCE. Obviously, do not leave this stuff where small children and animals can get to it, It's for the ants only.

It was amazing how quickly the ants gathered and feasted on this bait. It was most effective without the bait station. These ants were so tiny, they seemed unable to sense the bait station was there as the marched back 'n forth everywhere but in it for about 2 hours. Then, we decided to apply small lines of the bait gel along the baseboards in the same location as the bait station and blocked the area off to keep out pets away. Within minutes, the ants began feasting... they chowed down for hours and we haven't seen them since. Amazing!!

We live in northern Nevada and have an ant infestation every Summer that begins in the Spring and lasts until the first freeze in the Fall. We have tried several different ant baits in the past but our ants won’t eat any of them. For the past several years we have been controlling our ant population by spraying clove oil wherever we see them coming into the house (don’t want to use pesticides in the kitchen and around pets & kids) — it works but it only lasts for about two days (it will also kill them topically, but who wants to spend their days spraying ants!). So this year I thought I’d try something new and purchased this brand of ant bait. I started by applying a few ‘dots’ to a couple of areas where they were congregating and I also filled and put out 7 of the ant bait containers that are included and placed them where I saw lots of ants. In three days our ants were gone!!! It’s been a couple of weeks now and we still have no ants. I have left the filled bait containers out just in case any new ants show up, but so far it looks like they were all killed — or at least they all left our house. I am still in disbelief that they are all gone — it just seems too good to be true, but I sure can’t find any ants! This product would be worth at least twice the price in my opinion. It’s that good! It’s extremely easy to use and it just works.

Add my voice to the chorus—this MAXFORCE QUANTUM 0.03% IMIDACLOPRID ANT CONTROL LIQUID BAIT (with 10 bait stations) really works when TERRO Indoor Ant Bait loses its effectiveness. My home is built above an ant colony that stretches for miles along the California coastline, so all I can hope for is to control the ants that come indoors. The ants come in with all major weather changes, such as the start of the rainy season, or sudden shifts from hot to cold weather. Originally I used Grant’s ant-killer products. When they lost effectiveness, I switched to TERRO products (indoors and outdoors), and they worked very well for several years. However, California’s weather has been erratic for the past year or so, and the ants have been coming indoors so often, they finally established a beachhead inside the house walls. They’ve been driving me absolutely crazy, so I purchased this Maxforce Quantum Imidacloprid bait and put it down near a couple of places where the ants were gathering. In a few minutes, the ants showed interest in the bait stations. For the next 24 hours or so, there was much activity at the stations. After 48 hours, the activity had stopped completely. This product worked much faster than TERRO ever did (when TERRO still worked). My sanity is slowly returning, and I’m extremely happy about trying this product. CAUTIONARY NOTE: Although imidacloprid is widely used (since 1996) as an agricultural insecticide, it may be a factor in the recent bee colony collapse problem. It is highly toxic to bees, and moderately toxic to some birds, plants, and aquatic creatures. (You can Google “imidacloprid” for more information in a Wikipedia article.) The Maxforce product label warns that this ant bait is toxic to pets and humans if ingested or absorbed through the skin, and that it must NOT be used where it can contaminate food preparation areas. BE SURE TO READ THE LABEL INSTRUCTIONS carefully, and follow the safety precautions.

Easy to apply but hard to clean off. Attracts ants well but they keep coming back. I bought this because it's the same brand used by my professional exterminator but it doesn't seem to be as effective. Ants cluster to it but if they are carrying it back to the nest, it's not killing them off. It was first applied by the pest guy over a month and a half ago. The kitchen ants were gone in 1 1/2 weeks and haven't come back. The bathroom ants were absent when he applied it there but showed up after a few days. 2-3 weeks later I wiped up the dead ones but more came in. I then applied new bait, cleaned up after a week or so but they keep coming. I'll keep using it until it's gone or the ants stop coming but I'm not real hopeful at this point. The bait cups are virtually useless inside. Ants just go around but not into them where the bait is. A drop here and there along the wall works better.