Maxforce Carpenter Ant Bait Gel is just part of the war on Carpenter Ants. It is a high powered weapon against the ants. You HAVE to learn about the ants in order to clear your property once and for all. These ants build main colonies as well as satellite or secondary colonies in order to give their species a better chance to survive, they have to do this. Your mission is to find ALL places they are living.
Start by going outside about midnight with a flashlight and find them. They are more active at night. Look around the trunk of ALL trees. If you see some ants, place three or four small amounts, about the size of a small pea, of the bait on their path up and down the tree. Do this several nights in a row.
Next look ALL around your house, and garages including out buildings for ants. When you find them, watch them carefully. Even pull up a chair and observe for ten minutes. Are they moving along a path with ants going in both directions? Follow the ants in both directions until you find where they are coming from and going to. Place some squirts of bait along this path as well as their final destination unless it's at the top of a tree - no climbing anywhere. Work safely always. Repeat as often as you see the ants each night. These ants can travel very long distances. I followed a trail from one of my big oak trees, across my yard, under a fence, and up the side of my neighbors house only to disappear in a hole on the edge of their wood siding. I found a similar hole in my wood siding, up under the edge, where the ants had chewed a colony entrance into the siding. There was so much activity on the trail between my tree and the neighbor's house that the ants had worn a visible line of dead grass on their trail.
On any of these trails you find, place some Maxforce bait. The ants will eat some and carry some back to the colony for the queen and other workers to eat. You just killed the whole colony. Same way with the satellite (outpost) colonies.
Stay with this line of attack. If you even see one ant after a week, keep looking and baiting. If you give up to soon, they will multiply again, quickly.
I found a colony in a stucco wall of a fence where the ants chewed an entrance to that colony into the Styrofoam backing. On the ground, just below the opening, was all kinds of Styrofoam "saw" dust. Baited the entrance and checked back the next night to find hundreds and hundreds of dead ants on the ground just below the entrance. HAPPY HAPPY! Another colony destroyed....
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NOW I'M ANT FREE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TWENTY YEARS! NO ants inside or outside my home. I went thru two tubes of bait, small price to pay. I'm writing this report after a year of being ant free!!! Hope this helps others to get rid of their Carpenter Ants.
Thank you and I'm glad you too will be ant free.
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Maxforce Carpenter Ant Bait Gel
Product Overview
Powerful formula for effective ant control
Maxforce Carpenter Ant Bait Gel is designed to mimic the preferred food source of carpenter ants: honeydew. This special formula allows foraging ants to return to the colony and feed the bait to larvae and the queen(s). The Maxforce Domino Effect kills even the most hidden and inaccessible colonies.
Use & Control
Argentine, acrobat, big-headed, carpenter, cornfield, field, honey, odorous house, pavement, pharaoh and thief ants
- Fast control – within three to five days
- High moisture content enhances the bait’s attractiveness
- Made to take advantage of ant trophallaxis: ants eat the bait & return to feed the colony
- Broad label directions
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Ants binge, go home, then die...killing all others.
In a matter of two days we went from no ants to seeing multiple scouting groups of three meandering in almost every room of our house. After some research and reading reviews on Amazon we purchased this product and one of the granular ones.While waiting for the Postal Service to deliver this Maxforce Gel my wife went out and bought some simple bait traps labeled for carpenter ants. The ants couldn't have cared less.Having ordered on June 22nd I happily received the product on June 27th. In waiting we had noticed the carpenter ants were most active in seeking nourishment between 10pm and midnight so around 8pm I started placing small drops in places I thought were close to their possible home. No more than half an hour later I hit the jackpot: behind our countertop is a small gap - the ants were coming up from there.I started beading down some lines and making tall dime size piles of the Maxforce Gel at the top edge of our countertop next to the wall. One big guy found it and had his fill. By 9:30pm we had six of them feeding. At 10:30 word among the ant nest had spread and we were hosting a carpenter ant crack party. (I'm posting two customer photos) I think we counted 28 of them. Everybody brought a friend as there were little ones gorging too. My wife and I had a good time watching them as if it was a Discovery Channel special.Apparently I throw one hell of a party:It's been nearly three weeks since that crazy night and we haven't seen one since. Good bye and good riddance you little *bleeps*!As I mentioned I had also bought a granular product but am unable to comment on it's effectiveness as I never had a chance to use it. The carpenter ants absolutely loved the Maxforce Gel. ...So do I.-The gel is clear with a slight yellow tint. Good for being inconspicuous...if it wasn't for all the ants gorging on it. It could have been hot pink for all I care - it worked in one night.-The product comes with a cap so it doesn't dry out between uses.-I used what I felt be a lot of the gel and I still have half the tube left. More than enough product in one tube for new colonizations. With the remainder gel capped I'm awaiting the next potential colony attempting to live (and shortly thereafter: die) in my home.This product met and exceeded my expectations, and my wife and I enjoyed watching them feed. I can't imagine a better product for a new carpenter ant colonization.
