TERRO Liquid Ant Baits - T1813B - Outdoor Ready-to-Use Terro Ant Traps, Kills Household Ants, 12 Stakes

The media could not be loaded. I have ants on my 3rd floor’s balcony. I placed about 5 traps in less than 10 minutes, within 20 minutes I had large congregations of 30+ ants per trap, were there used to be only 2-3 ants before. These traps are highly effective attracting the ants to the sugary poison. Tip: I followed the advise of some of the reviews and spill the poison at the mount of the trap (as the trap entrance might get a couple of millimeters off the surface). I don’t know yet if the poison is effective, I will update the review in 1-2 weeks on this.Edit after 10 days of use: The traps killed a lot of ants the first couple of days, unfortunately, I have too many colonies of the large ants everywhere, so it took some effort and perseverance to get rid of them. In my experience, positioning the traps vertically is mostly ineffective, as it is very difficult to have the trap mouth make contact with the wall, those few millimeters off the wall make a big difference, very few ants find their way into the trap. However, if you placed the traps horizontally (on their bellies) and squeeze them a bit to spread 4-6 drops of the poisonous syrup next to the trap mouth, ants will instantly find the sugary poison and start collecting in large numbers around the venomous drops, thus the traps are good, but need to be placed correctly. Even with these strategies, I still have ants after 7-10 days, remember the larger ants are a bit more stubborn than the little ones (and resistant). I live in Florida and ant colonies can get really big here. After 5 days I came home and saw large ant balls on the garage walls, I was able to see them from 10-15 feet, when I came closer, I realized that the Queens had abandoned the nest and were surrounded by other ants (queens were big and have wings) these phenomenon happened almost every day for 4-5 consecutive days, I took advantage of this opportunity and sprayed the queens with Clorox, killing so far no less than 20 queens in 5 days - a testament of how large these nest can get here in Florida. In summary, this product has created a havoc inside the ant colonies, killing a significant number of them every day, including bringing the queens out. Some nest had completely disappeared, while others are about 70-80% gone. Changing the traps after storms, or spreading drops of poison has proveen to be effective. I have killed thousand of ants so far and managed to reduce my (outdoor) ant problem by about 80-90% in ten days. I still give these traps a 5 start rating as the destruction they create on those colonies is impressive. Unfortunately, the amount of colonies and ants I have outdoors is just too ginormous, so for these traps - as good as they are - they need multiple days (or weeks) to completely disseminate all the nests.

These work incredibly well for sugar-loving ants. In late spring, we can usually knock out the tiny ants with a few indoor bait traps. Not this year - we needed something more. We placed this Terro bait outside where we found colonies or where ants were entering the house and within 2-3 days, no more ants in the house or invading my outdoor plants. Great product for certain tenacious, persistent ants.

Seems to work adequately as formulated.

This is the best way to bait and kill sugar ants around the house / in the kitchen!

Every Spring when the weather warms up the ants show up. They have taken over my garden beds. They’re in my shed outside. Literally everywhere. I didn’t want indoor bait traps because I caught one of my crazy cats licking it as soon as I put down on the counter.I really wanted this work. And it did. I went around my house to the problem areas: front porch they are in the cat food, kitchen window, back door and my shed. The next morning there was a few around. Second morning gone! Completely gone! Unfortunately the landscapers got a few. (It comes with the community, our grass gets cut) But the ones that did make it lasted about 3 wks. Probably needed 2 baits for that area and it would have lasted longer.I will continue to buy these until the weather cools. It has been a relief getting rid of them. Grab a small garden shovel, you don’t need to dig a hole, just loosen the dirt a but. Don’t jam it in the ground, it’s not a stake. I like to cut the top off first and then just keep it upright while inserting in the ground. Pack the dirt around the bait for stability. Be mindful of areas of your lawn that tend to puddle when it rains. The ants can’t reach the bait if it’s in the middle of a puddle.Truly no wants to take a sip of their coffee and find a floating ant in your cup. If you have ants, or if there’s ants in your pets outside food bowls. These work. 100% Recommend.

This is the same Terro ant bait as the indoor product, but in a different container that stakes into the ground. But it is the staking that's the trick. The ground must be soft, because it's just a flimsy wedge-shaped plastic container that you have to jam in the soil. Sticking it into a nest after a recent rain seems to work, but it won't penetrate dry ground. Also, it seems to attract bees. I don't know if it's harmful to the little pollinators or not. I hope not, but I probably won't buy again until I know for sure.

Plain and simple, it worked.There was a trail of dead ants for a few days ( which was sort of gross, but that’s exactly how the product works), and then they stopped coming in the house.

Put these out every year. Does a OK job. No cleaning required. Small size just stick into ground. Easy to use.