Anyone else use TERRO ant killer? Don't you feel sorta sorry for

[zonkers]

those well intentioned ants unknowingly about to bring traces of tasty bait back to their colony thus wiping them out? Oh well. Emotions aside, this is one amazing product.

[Evoman]

1. Yeah, I feel bad...I had a war with ants two summers ago

they would get into my apartment by the hundreds. What I did:

-Put raid poison that sticks around for awhile, on the walls around their places of entry. Then I put poisened diatamecioius eart, in a circle around the corners and other small entraces (kind of like a moat). Then I put one of those ant traps where they carry poisened food back to their colonies on the ant side of the Earth Moat (so it was the only food they could get). It completely cut off their entrace....three years later, and I see maybe 1 ant a month (at most) in my apartment.

I feel bad for my ant genocide.

P.S. You gotta be careful with those poison drops/food traps. Sometimes they just break apart an ant colony without actually killing all the ants...so you actually end up with several small colonies, instead on one big one. Pretty soon they turn into many BIG colonies. They are also less effective with carpenter ants...to get rid of those buggers, you usually need an exterminator.

[FoxOnTheRun]

2. I read somewhere that nutrasweet works very well

seems to kill the brain of the ants (excitotoxin)

[azmouse]

3. Amdro works well too.

It's little flakes that the ants take back into the nest and it kills the queen.
I hate ants. They bite me and leave welts that itch just like a mosquito bite.

[NNadir]

4. I can't guess what they charge for it, but whatever it is, it's too much.

This product is a little borax and sugar water.

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