TERRO T300 Liquid Ant Baits, 6 Bait Stations
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I was sick of ants coming into my house and finding my crumbs. I deployed the Terro liquid ant baits on a Saturday night. By Sunday, a steady trail of ants were coming and going from the ant trap. Clearly, word got out and the ants were excited to get everything back to their homes. I watched as they worked tirelessly to deliver sweet poison to their family back home. I watched and realized how many ants would die. Every time I glanced at the ants marching to and fro from the trap, I thought of how doomed their food scavenging mission was. I thought of their masses dying slow deaths - their old and their young alike. Yes, I was the evil super villain that was destined to eradicate their entire colony. By Tuesday, there were no more ants. Their blood is on my hands. With great power comes great responsibility. I am worse than Thanos. With the snap of the top of a Terro ant bait unit, I eradicated countless ant lives.\n\nImmensely effective. 5/5 Stars. Obsessed with my newly found villain role and now have a sick hope of attracting a scavenging straggler from another colony so I can do it all over again.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Old design you cut with scissors was fine, the new twist off tops don’t touch the surface and smaller ants can’t get in! Do I have to build them a ramp? Stupid new design, please, tossing this order.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2016', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Works very well and took care of my carpenter ant problem. I used 3 of the 6 in the pack to kill a horde of ants and a queen that set up behind the dishwasher. Ants were totally gone by day 3 and have not returned in over 2 days (they are all gone, see updates below). I covered the baits with a plate (left one edge up) and taped it to the floor with packing tape to keep the dog away.\n\nUpdate 5/26/16: I have purchased the TERRO outdoor liquid ant bait and it has worked on the wooden fence and near the trashcans.\n\nUpdate 6/4/16: The ants are gone and have not returned. Thank you TERRO!\n\nUpdate 7/11/16: The traps have been gone for 2 months...I have not seen another ant.\n\nIf you have a question, leave a question in the comment section below.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "WOW do these traps work, dang! We rent half of an 300 year old farm house converted into a two family home, and when our landlord started a total renovation on the apartment next to ours, tons of spectacularly gross, giant, alien-like black carpenter ants fled to our side of the house. We tried all the old tricks- bay leaves, bowls full of soap and sugar water, etc- nothing was working. It got to be one of those situations where if my kid so much as left an empty capri sun pouch out on the kitchen counter, the ants would be all over it in no time. I ordered these traps based on reviews, only half expecting it to work.\n\nI placed all four traps between our countertop dishwasher and the wall, which seemed to be along the main trail, bordering the apt next door. About a half an hour later I got up to check them and they were SWARMED with ants. I mean, they were crawling all over each other to get to this stuff. Dozens of ants crammed themselves into each trap while dozens more waited their turn. It was so disgusting I couldn't look away! Please trust me when I assure you that if there are carpenter ants in your home, they will GO to these traps- I've never seen anything like that indoors in my life.\n\nAfter the initial feeding frenzy (about 12-24 hours), smaller groups of ants came and went over the next few days before eventually dwindling to nothing. After the recommended time, we discarded the traps and went about our blissfully ant-free lives. They never came back! I really think we took out the whole colony- I wonder if our landlord will give us a discount on rent once we let her know we solved her carpenter ant problem?"}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2018', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I\'ve been having carpenter ants appear all over my house recently, and I knew it was time to do something about it. I didn\'t want to continue buying Raid spray cans because those only kill ants on contact. Thus, you still have the ant colony (or colonies) to deal with since they nest somewhere in your house where you can\'t reach or see. I conducted research online, came across many reviews, and read articles about these Terro products to which I\'ve heard lots of good things about. After some consideration, I decided to purchase their product with hopes that this will eliminate the ant infestation. On the first day, I had placed one bait station by the kitchen walls with nothing surrounding it, and after a few hours, ants had already began approaching the bait station. I left the bait station in its place overnight and by the next morning I had gone to check how many ants I have attracted to the bait. There were NUMEROUS ants! I had even followed their trail to find the entrance/hole from where they began coming through. As days pass by however, none of the ants seem to disappear. As a matter of fact, it seemed that more ants have appeared rather. I then figured it was time to place more ant bait stations nearby (as seen in the photo); also since the first bait station probably doesn\'t have much bait left too. So far it\'s been a week and a half, and the same amount of ants (to what it appears like) are still roaming around, and it does not seem like the amount of ants have decreased at all. I had even bought the liquid drop baits too, but that\'s for another review. I am starting to think that I am practically giving these ants free food instead of actually eliminating them unfortunately. I had even recently read on a review that Terro had likely changed up their formula a bit, so perhaps that\'s why it seems like this stuff isn\'t working, but did for others (back when the formula wasn\'t changed as a likely case). I had read that it may take up to two weeks to completely eliminate and control the infestation(s), so I\'m still waiting, but so far, I am a little disappointed in this as I expected to see less ants by the day, not more. I will update by the next week.\n\nUPDATE (08/11/18): Well unfortunately, I now go from a 2-star rating to a 1-star rating. I placed a 2-star rating first because I wasn\'t happy about the results I was seeing so far in the first week, but the box states to wait for 2 weeks to see complete control. To this day (exactly 2 weeks after product was delivered) I still manage to have numerous ants in my house. I have literally used 2 boxes (12 bait stations) throughout the days. I had replaced some bait stations and threw the first ones I\'ve used in the trash because after a few days, the ants didn\'t seem to go inside the stations any longer, so I figured I just had to use new fresh ones. The box states (regarding controlling and eliminating ants) that "complete control may take up to two weeks", however, it doesn\'t seem like the ants have numbered down because there\'s still lots of them coming in and out. I really thought this would help me with my ant infestation, but I might just try to find another solution to wipe out their colony/nest.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Ridiculously effective!!! I first went to the local store and bought RAID Ant Baits. The ants simply walked around the traps and showed ZERO interest. How is RAID still in business, I do not know!?!! I went online and did some research and this Terro Liquid Ant Bait product was getting rave reviews and a lot of positive feedback. I bought some, opened up 3 of the 6 packs on Ant Bait, and within MINUTES, yes MINUTES, the ants were literally coming out of the woodwork to get to this stuff. Within 2 days, not a single any survives.YAY Terro. Thank you so much for this excellent product.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2019', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': '4/20/19 update: I\'ve reduced the stars from 2 to 1. Terro, what in heavens\' name were you thinking? You sure didn\'t \'market test\' these before production. Seriously, once again: TERRO, IF IT AIN\'T BROKE, DON\'T FIX IT.\n\nI must say once a week about something: "Progress is highly overrated." And now that reality of regress (worse actually) instead of progress has hit the once-upon-a-time infallibly effective, problem-free Terro liquid traps.\n\nThis product was foolproof until you redesigned the plastic containers sometime this past year (the first such new design we received was in February - 4 boxes at once I bought cuz of winter ant invasion), and these new boxes have all brought disastrous results. You, Terro, did something besides change the openings that I originally complained about here (see below) or else the change of opening itself had more dire consequences than I had yet witnessed at the time of earlier already-negative review of the new openings.\n\nThat was before discovering that these \'new\' versions (far worse than "new Coke" once decades ago was supposed to be and had to be taken off the market post haste because it tasted so bad) are beyond annoying or seemingly ineffective, as I first complained.\n\nInstead, it turns out they leak gooey pools of ant killer all over the floor and result also in graveyards of dead ants all over, ants that don\'t make it back with the killer on their bodies back to their \'homebase\' as is supposed to happen.\n\nAnd this is happening systematically now - with almost every trap in the house. And not just for us. I mentioned this to my neighbor and she said hers are leaking as well.\n\nTrap after trap, you leave them completely untouched sitting alongside baseboards and, while the ants are now finding their way inside, which wasn\'t true for a long while at the time of my earlier review, now instead you come back to check and find that the plastic is stuck to the floor in a literal pool of its own liquid having leaked out - which is a total mystery as to how that\'s happening. Does the new opening I complained about earlier make it so that ants leverage themselves up on to the \'lip\' and tip the plastic up so that the product spills out? Or can the weight of a congregate of ants at the opening cause it to tip \'forward\' and the liquid spills out? Whatever weird explanation it is, the liquid pools on the floor outside and under the plastic but with no apparent hole in the bottom of the plastic to explain the leakage ... and with nothing besides ants having been in contact with the plastic traps. (Imagine if we had pets or toddlers that could access the locations!?)\n\nAnd the upshot in terms of ants themselves is that, while some are making it into the plastic and dying inside, far far more are wondering rather "drunkenly" from the plastic off in nearby directions and dying on the floor in hordes - there are literal Gettsyburgs of ant graveyards all over our floors.\n\nAnd it seems that the pools of liquid are serving to just draw more and more ants into our house. Resulting in more and more \'graveyards\' to vaccum up and pools of gooey liquid that \'welds\' the plastic to the floor - at least it\'s wood flooring and does clean up - but what a mess. Beware of ever putting these on rugs!\n\nNone of this EVER used to happen with Terro liquid traps that we\'ve bought for years to great success, without fail. Now, you redesign the plastic and some aspect of the redesign is a total failure.\n\noriginal review: These traps were always amazing in their effectiveness. But then you went and changed the opening to a snap-off one, instead of the old version where you had to use scissors to cut off the opening.\n\nWelllll, the problem is: Your new design leaves the snapped off hole just high enough off the floor that the ants don\'t seem to crawl up into it. The previous design kept the entry to the bait trap an easy "walk in" for them, and boy did they.\n\nWHY did you change this? and in so doing, raise the opening to the bait off the floor far enough that we had about 3 die right in the opening having apparently barely made it up into it and now no more customers.\n\nPlease stop changing things that work great to things that don\'t work at all.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "During the summer, I had quite the infestation of sugar ants swarming around my kitchen sink in search of food and water. They kept eating through the calk lining the edges of the kitchen counter to reach the sink. The bait worked wonderfully to clear my kitchen.\n\nThey're a good size, easy to hide or to just tuck away in a corner. They work fast too. Just be sure to read all the tips and instructions and don't get frustrated if at first the ants totally ignore it. Give them time to find it, and be sure to clean away their marked path (as the directions explain). Within a day or two, the ants had disregarded my sink in favor of the bait and drank heartily. The going was a little slow after that: ants still present though moving slowly and with less frequency. Then they were gone save a few stragglers that were easy to remove. Be careful to not leave the bait out too long or another colony will find it and starts the process again.\n\nThe only downside is if it spills or the liquid oozes out the opening. Then you get a sticky mess of poison on your counter. I propped it up with a penny to prevent it from happening again."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "Day 1: I set out 3 traps in what I considered to be strategic spots around noon. By 8 pm, all 3 traps were completely swarmed/covered in Ants. I've never seen so many ants in my life. At first I wanted to just grab them all up, throw them away and get to vacuuming. But I left it\n\nDay 2: I check the traps again around noon, giving them a full 24 hours to do their work. I see literally 2 ants crawling around. No ants in the carpet. No ants on the walls. No ants any where else.\n\nDay 3: I can't find an ant to save my life. Late last night, I even purposely left out an empty Dr Pepper can to see if maybe the ants just got wise and are avoiding these traps. Nada... not a single ant was left living.\n\nDay 4: The battle has been won. Only time will tell if the war will be as easily won or not.\n\nThere is no other indoor ant trap that I can recommend as strongly as I recommend these. I have two dogs and a cat, and they don't mess with the traps at all. They have 0 interest in them. These traps were extremely well, extremely fast, and are as easy and cutting the tips off, and placing the trap and walking away.\n\nThey have no scent to them (that I can tell), they do spill easily though. It's a thicker liquid, so it won't just run over everything, but anything it does get on will be sticky."}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2017', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This is my first reorder since 2014 ... yup this stuff really works :)\n\nUsing this Terro ant bait is like fishing ... you’ve gotta be patient!\n\nJust put out the bait sit back and wait. The ants would soon nibble and then the feeding frenzy begins!\n\nJust be patient and resist the urge to zap the ant frenzy with a can of Raid :)\n\nThe trick is to wait for the scout ants to share the bait with the others back home . If only they knew TNLAFL - There Is nothing like a free lunch :)\n\nMy sugar ants invasion usually take two days to eradicate ... but I’ve had some stragglers feeding for as much as five days.\n\nMost important ... remove the bait only when the ants are gone ... and gone they would be - TG\n\nRIP guys :)\n\nThank you Terro for teaching me patience ... and keeping my kitchen countertops ant free!\n\nHope my review was helpful ... Jeffrey A. (Jeff)'}]