These products are sometimes referred to as bait stations and are designed to let ants in but keep children and pets out. If you do have a tight spot where you can’t fit a bait station, we recommend Terro T200 Liquid Ant Killer.

They come with little adhesive strips for mounting to a vertical surface or even under an upper cabinet.

Nippon Ant Killer Liquid is hazardous to bees and should not be used in areas where food, feed or water could become contaminated. Ants are coming in for some reason,” Rollins’s Glen Ramsey said, and more often than not, that reason is food. Among products more focused on fire ants, we dismissed Amdro’s Ant Block Home Perimeter Ant Bait because it uses hydramethylnon, which takes longer to work than Advion’s indoxacarb. A toddler ingesting the contents of a bait station usually would not get enough insecticide to be dangerous.

We prefer using lower-impact, easy-to-use bait stations rather than spreading and maintaining a granule bait or kill-on-contact pesticide around your entire house. But if you try to kill household ants the wrong way, you can actually split the colony—and make the problem worse. Further complicating matters is the fact that, over time, the soybean oil will go rancid, and fire ants will no longer be attracted to the bait.Plus the extension tube is the perfect tool to inject the spray into wall voids and small openings in the infested wood. Antmaster Ant Killer has a unique formulation recipe which caters to the feeding preferences of most major pest ants and serves up a meal they can’t resist.

Ants and crawling insects can be unwelcome visitors to homes and gardens, but Nippon has the solution to controlling them as quickly as possible. Place one or two bait stations on a flat surface, preferably in late evening, by the nest or ant run. Even better would be to use Ant Bait Stations to hold Antmaster and protect it from the elements as well as non target species. It is literally inside a box with a clear cellophane top so I can look in and see the bait and the ants, nothing could have disturbed it.The insecticides in ant bait products are not well absorbed across the skin into the body, so getting some on the skin is not expected to cause body-wide effects. Nippon Ant Killer Liquid is particularly useful when the ant nest site is unknown or inaccessible, but likely entrance points include holes in walls, around drainage and waste pipes, air bricks, and beneath work surfaces, kitchen units, baths and wash basins. This blogger made and tested five different concoctions and concluded that “none of the home made Borax ant killers remedies were as effective as the Terro Ant Bait”. We prefer clear bait stations, which make it easy to monitor ant activity and see if the bait is being used or if any ants are currently feeding.

Formulated to destroy the whole colony, it consists of a sweet, sugary gel which worker ants feed on and take back to the nest to the Queen. This minimalist distribution combined with the exceptional foraging capabilities of fire ants makes it “unlikely that a bird or other non-target species would succumb to the effects of the toxin.With opaque bait stations such as our Terro runner-up and others from Combat, Pic, and Raid, monitoring is impossible; you can only sit there, hoping that there’s bait left and that it’s working. Puckett also noted that spreading a fire ant bait across a lawn is very different from spreading a kill-on-contact pesticide.