TERRO
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'UPDATE:\nHave not seen one single ant in my house since my last post. A good product for killing these sweet loving ants.\nORIGINAL POST:\nBefore buying this I started with a little sugar and boric acid (8 to 1) mix on the floor to find out if "my" ants were after sweets or fat and where the trail led to so I could place the bait close to their entry point. They went after the sugar so I bought the Terro.\n\nThese ants are in the sweet eating phase and they just swarmed this stuff for about 5 days. After that, there seemed to be fewer and fewer until after about 2 weeks they were all gone. If you have, or think you have, a large colony be sure to get plenty and keep it fresh. I started with one pack but, added a second a couple days later and a third about 3 days after that so they had plenty of fresh goo.\n\nSomeone said "...this stuff is very sticky..." and, I can attest to that! I put it on a piece of aluminum foil with one edge held down with painter\'s tape so they had easy access and I had easy clean up. The Terro did the rest. I haven\'t seen an ant on my kitchen sink for well over three weeks and, living in, currently very hot, Southern California, which is one giant ant hill, at a time when they seem to like to come in looking for water and cool air, that\'s wonderful.\n\nI know; this is going to really affect my Karma and I will probably be reincarnated as an ant. Also, my wife gives me sideways glances because of that sinister little laugh but, I just hate these little buggers for some reason and absolutely enjoy destroying large populations of them. Does that make me a bad person?'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': " this stuff W O R K S. at first, it brings swarms and swarms of ants (only to the traps). I put the traps up around 7 pm... I kept coming back to check them. It was like the coolest SCIENCE EVER. more and more ants were showing up and entering the traps. The video I attached was like 10 minutes after I placed the traps out. It got CRAZY and way way more packed with ants - I just didn't get a video of the craziness. I eventually went to bed, I felt confident because the ants were only swarming the traps and then leaving through the same place they entered and they were just going all over my house. The next morning, there were ZERO living ants walking around. The traps were packed. a week later, and I have yet to see a living ant in my house. Prior to trying these traps, we have had an ongoing and ANNOYING ant problem for months. not anymore PRAISE."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2015', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "My story is a sad tale to tell. For weeks I had been battling these fire ants that seemed to invade my room. At the beginning they were just inside my closet. Slowly but surely, they continued their onslaught and invaded my dirty laundry basket... and finally, my bed. I got bit quite ferociously by these demonic ants. I asked my apartment complex to spray. They did... It did not work. The ants now went into the kitchen and up to my brother's room. That is when I said ENOUGH. I went to the only place I could get help. AMAZON DOT COM! I found the reviews of this product quite interesting and decided I would give it a go. I couldn't wait, so I even paid for the $4 one day shipping even though I have Amazon Prime. Surely enough, the next day, trumpets sounded, angels came down from heaven while light shined on my package of hope and wonder.\n\nI got my Terro Liquid Ant baits and placed them on ant trails... Grabbed a bag of chips, and set my watch while I committed my crime. After a couple minutes, I saw one ant come in and start sucking at the drops. I laughed maniacally while enjoying my evil doing. After about 30 minutes, they were all over the bait. Then I set 4 more all over my apartment... I saw the difference right away! The ants were disappearing! I was so happy... until it hit me... I had just committed genocide against this poor colony of ants. I found that I missed their company at night on my bed, their company when I cooked, did a #2, dressed up, etc... I couldn't believe I had just killed them all. I kept picturing them eating happily, then having a stomach ache, then feeling their insides turn inside out and slowly die. All of those poor tiny creatures, gone! Soon, the atrocity of my crime was too much on my shoulders. Alcohol was my salvation, one drink turned into one bottle, then bottles, then just plain pain! My life has never been the same afterwards.... Anyways, going back to the review of this product. If you are looking to wreck havoc, mayhem, pain and misery on a colony on ants, then this product will work great for you! It might work too well..."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I bought both the indoor and outdoor varieties of these - I live in Florida and my home and home office space (which is detached) both had problems with these obnoxious tiny, fast-moving ants. They sting, making it really annoying to be at my keyboard and suddenly get bitten all over my hands and arms.\n\nThere's some important things to remember when using the Terro Liquid Ant Baits.\n\nFirst, yes, it does take days, and for me I left these out for weeks.\nSecond, I looked at where the ants were coming and going and put this along their path in a place that my pets would not be able to get into, just to be safe. If you have small children, definitely be extremely careful as the liquid looks like honey.\nThird, it's really annoying that it doesn't *look like* the ants are taking the bait--I kept wanting to yell at them like a drill sergeant and shoo them into the packet...but rest assured, eventually they do. And eventually, they go away.\nFourth and last--once the ants are gone, if you really want to minimize the chance of a return infestation, I leave these out and I also wipe down *everything* in the house that I can. In my home office that meant wiping down the underside of my desk, every inch of my keyboard tray, the floor, etc. Because ants lay down trails that other ants can follow. You want to wipe those out so the little jerks have to start all over if they get near your home. With luck, they'll get confused and annoyed and go away, but keep in mind, I was really fastidious about keeping food and drink out of the home office and they hung around just the same.\n\nMy ants came back this year. Within a few days of laying these out again, they were gone once more. Highly recommended, but patience is a virtue."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': ' As an animal lover I prefer not to kill but to help my parents I had to stand with them against their annual ant invasion so I did the research and Terro seem to have the solution we sought. After reading dozens of detailed and even humorous reviews of the mass murders of ants I thought if this stuff delivers as promised I needed to document and put pen to paper, so to speak. Well folks, guess what? We put the traps out about 6 hours ago and about an hour later the parade began! Ants are tireless workers and they look out for one another so if you think about that this is rather a sad tale... look at of them standing on hind legs to share the delicious treat with their friends and family; the adults feeding the little ones; the nonstop buffet line savoring this new treat from the cupboard gods! I snapped, I filmed and yes I even shed a tear before I closed the cupboard door for the night. I am happy my parents will soon have an ant free home but none of us can think to hard on the details... oh karma please understand why we have done what we have done :('}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'In the past we have had ant problems that I usually took care of with some home made traps, and they were moderately successfu. However, this year for some unknown reason, we have had a veritable tsunami of an invasion that prompted us to go to a more professional solution, i.e. ordering these liquid ant baits. The first thing we noticed one day after placing one in our bathroom, was that the population had decreased substantially. We usually would see 4-6 ants crawling around the floor at any given time. That number decreased to 1-2 ants after a couple of days, and now they have almost disappeared entirely, but strangely enough there were very few in the bait trap itself, which leads me to surmise they carried the bait back to the nest. A totally different result from the trap we placed in our sunroom (see picture--warning it is unappealing) as it turned out to be full of dead ants. At least for us these ant traps WORKED!'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2014', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I apparently don\'t live in a house. I live in a giant block of Swiss cheese. We\'ve been battling an intermittent ant problem ever since we moved in. The first one we managed to combat with gap filler, but I think there must have been an offshoot of that colony that moved and set up shop underneath the edge of my carpet where it meets the kitchen tile. One morning I walked into my kitchen to find a full-on ant orgy in progress in front of my fridge. It was downright Bacchanalian and scarred me for life. I\'m glad my children weren\'t witness to such debauchery.\n\nI thought I found another gap where they might have been getting in, so I plugged it with more expanding foam, and the problem seem to go away for a bit, but they were just laying low, formulating their next plan of attack. Ants started trickling out from beneath the carpet edge again, only this time I was done with that namby pamby gap filler. It was time to break out the big guns. I Googled "Best Ant Bait" and the first thing it pulled up was this product page for the Terro (which is only one "r" short of Terror--coincidence? I think not). I only needed to read a few of the reviews and I was convinced. I grabbed a box from a local hardware store (sorry, Amazon, even with Prime shipping, my problem was far too vexing to wait even one more hour), set them in all the strategic rendezvous points. Then I waited. It took a couple hours. And then the purge began . . .\n\nI\'ve used other ant baits before to limited success. Most just don\'t do a very good job at attracting the critters. It\'s like they\'re hip to the Raid jive. But the other reviews about this product do not lie. Never in my life have I seen the crack frenzy that soon began, when literally hundreds of ants started pouring into these traps. I could see them writhing around in orgasmic euphoria. I could hear them laughing and clinking their glasses and making awkward late night sexual propositions with complete strangers. It would be like if a giant chocolate cheesecake had fallen out of the sky right in front of me. I would probably act similarly, rolling around in it, gorging myself silly, completely unaware that God decided to save himself the trouble of flooding the planet to wipe out the human vermin and instead decided to rain down poison disguised as dessert. Noah 2.0, I am not.\n\nAdmittedly, I do feel a bit like God right now. It\'s been fun watching this microcosm of the apocalypse unfold with an aloof Mona Lisa grin on my face. I am a terrible God, but I am benevolent. These creatures died thinking they were having the best day of their lives, and that\'s better than most of us get in this crazy world.\n\nThank you, Terro. You are now my #1 choice for ant genocide.\n\nUPDATE: 24 hours later -- Only a few stragglers remain. They\'re staggering around helplessly, their bodies undoubtedly full of their dead, poisoned comrades. The bait traps that were once full of ants are now empty. I don\'t care to imagine what happened to all of them, but since I\'m a writer, I probably will. I saw a few ants in my downstairs bathroom and set one of the traps in there. A few ants became a few hundred. More death throes are commencing. LOOK ON MY WORKS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR!'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I bought Terro ant baits last year, and they worked perfectly. We got more ants for 2-3 days and they were gone afterwards for the rest of the summer. This year the package looked different. Ants were coming and eating the gel, and some ants died inside of the bait, but we still had ants all summer long. I kept changing the bites, and ants kept coming. The only good thing is that the bait helped keeping ants in one area, and not spreading too much all over. Need to find another solution for the next year. These baits are not working anymore.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "This stuff works. Had a small ant problem that started getting worse every day-- when I found one on my shirt one day I knew I had to do something. I did some googling and bought this ant bait and put one pack out for the night, I knew where they might be coming from because my cat started following some of them around and staring at a particular corner of my house. There were maybe 30 dead ants a foot away from the poison the next morning. I left the ants because I read somewhere that ants take their dead back to their colony, and by the afternoon they were all gone. My husband put another one out for good measure. I'll leave them out for the rest of the week but I haven't seen an ant in the last 2 days now. I felt a tinge of guilt, but I just can't have ants crawling all over the place, they really do get everywhere if you let them."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': " I was skeptical, as I have used several products in the past for an ongoing ant problem. I never had a LOT of ants in the house, but every year I'd get more than just a few, and I was sick of it. I was AMAZED at how well this product worked! I can not put it on the floor, as I have a dog, so a set it on a kitchen counter I had seen a few ants on. Next morning there were hundreds of ants crawling across my kitchen floor in a line. YUCK!! I left them alone, added a few more bait stations nearby, and got myself out of the house! The following day there were only a few straggler ants still working. I call them the over achievers!!\nDay 3... NO MORE ANTS! ALL HAD DISAPPEARED!\nIt is hard to tell from my pictures and video unless you zoom in, but this is the only product I will buy for future problems!!\n(Side note, not of importance though... the individual packs say to break off the tab to open. I had problems breaking it open so I used scissors to cut it instead. Not a big deal.)"}]