Ortho Home Defense for Indoor & Perimeter
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "This is a solid product.\n\nThis is not designed for infestations or ant hills. It is a product designed to prevent entry of insects into your residence and eliminate individual insects that have entered. While this may help the odd case of colonized insects, it really is made for those solo runners that snuck in when you weren't looking.\n\nIf you have an infestation or a mess, your insects are doing more than entering your house, they are living in it. Perhaps if it was sprayed around the house like the floors were being watering your floors it would work on infestations...but, PLEASE DON'T DO THAT, it wasn't designed for that use nor was that dosage tested for human/animal exposure. Consider calling an exterminator for infestations (100s+, colonies, groups of insects, etc.). And as for ant hills, either remove them, or buy poison for ant mounds. Are there ant hills in your home? That seems like a different problem.\n\nAfter you've taken care of cleaning things up, then protect your residence from the entry of new insects. You'll see this product is WONDERFUL FOR THE JOB. I've used it for years, one home in a very wooded, shaded area, one home in the south. Works like a charm...spraying as others have mentioned...seasonally.\n\nThis product works by leaving a residue, so if what you spray it on (baseboard, perimeter of home covered in leaves in the fall, edge of home outside, etc.) is cleaned, blown away, excessively rained on...some or all of that residue will be removed...particularly overtime. Be aware of your specific situation and adjust your application frequency accordingly.\n\nIF YOU CREATE A BARRIER, THEY WILL NOT ENTER. (Read the label for all the insects covered...it's extensive.)\n\n1. Clean up your outside and inside space a little of non-permanent items, pulling things from the perimeter (toys, anything that shouldn't be on the floor or ground basically). Eliminate debris and items in which insects hide, make webs, etc.\n2. Spray the OUTSIDE perimeter and along the border of every door and window.\n3. Spray the INSIDE perimeter, along the base boards, of your whole house (closets, pantries, bathrooms included). Then spray a barrier between rooms (around the door frame).\n\nLastly, I understand the frustration that might occur if your wand or applicator never came. Exchange it with Amazon, try a spray bottle, etc.\n\nI've been using this with pets. Label says that IT MUST DRY BEFORE IT IS OK WITH PETS. Please remove them from the area while you apply. If you have a pet roach or tarantula I don't know what to tell you.\n\nAll the best, and good luck with your application."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "Added a picture to show that's on the jug what it says that it can kill to to help you all.\nIt has no nasty chemical smell, does hurt your wood floors, but will kill the bugs on contact and help control them from running around your house. I use this every year on my home and it is great stuff. I do inside and out. And keep enough around to kill anything that might pop up (ants out of the walkway) just spray and your problem is gone."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "So I don't like spiders. I recently moved to Toms River, NJ, and no one told me that I would be surrounded by them.\nI saw the reviews on this product and figured it would help me sleep at night, so I bought it. It arrived yesterday at 1:00 PM, and by 1:30, the whole perimeter of our house was sprayed, inside and out. Today I opened my door, and I see this shriveled up spider. Yay, the stuff works! Wait, is that a red hourglass shape on the spider's belly????? Beware. This product let's you know exactly WHAT almost got into your home. I will likely never sleep again."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "Florida residents. We started getting these little winged ants 🐜 in our house, which never happened before. They were crawling all over the ceiling in our 2-story house, so it was impossible to reach them & kill them.\nThe pest control guy charges almost $120 to spray pesticides, and being the cheapster money saving types, we wanted to see if this spray system works.\nIT WORKS!\nThe same day we got it delivered, I sprayed the entire perimeter of the house outside, plus inside the house corners and closets, plus the garage.\nWell, it's been a few months, and I haven't seen one bug since.\nI even still have half a gallon left.\nGet it. This works."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I moved into a new apartment in Texas that had a roach infestation beyond anything I had ever seen. It took me about 45 days and four of these bottles to rid the infestation, but I must say that it cleared the entire half of my apartment building not just my unit. So this stuff works,'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-4 review-rating', 'review_body': "So, I've owned this for approx. 12 months ... and it works! However, the way you use it depends on how well it works. I spray this along the baseboards of my home in each room. We live in a wooded area and sometimes German cockroaches are found inside during the summer. When this is sprayed as a barrier, I find a few roaches laid up on their backs dead. However, if I find one alive and spray it on contact you have to drench it before it dies. So, for on-contact, it doesn't work because it takes a while for the poison to kill the bugs. I'd give it 5 stars if it killed on contact."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I love this stuff - I grew up with mom spraying the house with Ortho Home Defense every season. We never had problems with ants/spiders/etc. I’m in college now, and I rent a room off campus away from home. When I first moved in, holy moly there were spiders, crickets, roaches, just insect life galore... I live over 10 miles away from the stores, and with no vehicle, I couldn’t run out and buy it but Amazon Prime always saves the day! My Ortho Home Defense arrived quickly and with the necessary wand (some reviews mentioned damaged containers or missing wands - that didn’t happen for me!). I sprayed inside and outside of my room, creating a barrier like the instructions state to do. About 48 hours later, most bugs had died/left the area. I haven’t had any problems with infestation since! I’ll definitely be buying another one for next season!'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "This stuff works very well I live in the woods and have all sorts of crazy type of insects roaming around some you definitely dont want creeping into your home. It dosen't last six months though, more like 3 to 4 months I probably spray every 2 to 3 months to keep the full strength protection around the perimeter."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2020', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-4 review-rating', 'review_body': "My husband would like me to replace the last star.\nI'm going to justify taking it.\nHubby: the product works. You barely apply a splotch to the corners of a room and watch an earwig die on the floor.\nWife: i watched bugs go into siezures for weeks after he uses this stuff. The bugs haven't even touched the sprayed spots that i know of. I have to live here too.\nHubby: we treated the outside of door and window frames. The moths flew in spiralled out and died. Clearly the best mosquito protection.\nWife: doesn't this imply that it contains evaporating chemicals so potent to achieve...\nI can't deny it works for months, not 12. Not in the southern swamps anyway. It's very humid and often 100 for weeks. I really don't know what that does to the chemicals usefulness or toxicity.\nIn my home it's obviously the most efficient thing we've used. Easily clearing away fleas, spiders, kudzu beetles, centipedes, roaches, anything flying, and my number one loathed nemesis the fire ant.\nI took that last star for the migraine i get for a month after we apply it even super sparingly. But that's a choice, as a consumer, that i make willingly to avoid itchy bites, burning fire ant stings, and other creepy crawly oober unsanitary bugs\nI wouldn't recommend it to homes with young children. Just my personal opinion."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Am in a heavily wooded mountainous area, spiders, insects of all sorts are part of life, but I had to draw the line at false widows. A bite on a human is a "lite" black widow bite. Effect on my four ounce Conure would be a diff story. I wanted to try this before plunking down $45+ for full on insecticide which is expensive, and potentially highly toxic to my pet bird. Not to say that Ortho is any safer, but, this other product is certainly a lot more intense. So far so good. I treated the entire perimeter, plus blasted around all windows and doors, cracks and crevices inside and out. First couple of days i spotted some false widows, a "cave cricket," and a sow bug, but nothing since then. It has been a week since I have seen any spiders, any new webs. Direct spray kills spiders in a few seconds. No issue w the nozzle clogging up.'}]