As effective as wishing the ants away
344687
I tried Raid Ant Bait in my classroom. I placed four of them on each corner of my classroom. They had no effect whatsoever. There were small sugar ants before. They are still there several days later. It purports to bait ants and then have them spread poison to their colony. Not strong enough for Florida's pest issue. 1/5 stars.
2043879
I can't really verify that they are working amazingly, but I have not seen ants in any large numbers so far this season, so I'm attributing that to these. The problem though, is the design of the liquid bait packs. First off, you have to cut them open with scissors, which is not only really annoying, but gets nasty ant poison on your scissors so you have to clean them off. Second, once you open them the liquid can pour right out, making a mess. You have to be careful to open and place them without spilling. And you have to ensure that they are not placed somewhere they might be spilled. For instance, a logical location is near the trash, but the area is too high traffic, and the can has to be moved to change bags, etc. So the chances of spilling the bait there is too high.
2540835
A year ago we moved from the 9th floor of a highrise complex in DTLA to a house in a quaint neighborhood. Love the extra space, but I forgot what a nightmare it is living on the ground floor with ANTS. When the house was built, the contractor probably didn't seal the house properly because ants seem to find their way into the house through the floors, ceilings, and tiny cracks in the house.

It's been a complete nightmare to deal with because we can't stop them. This clear silicone gel has come in handy because whenever I see an ant trail I'll just seal up the cracks where they are coming from with this, and it seems to do the job! Problem solved. Now I just have random caulking everywhere, but at least it's clear. This works great and dries fast, but the tube is SO HARD TO SQUEEZE. That's why I had to knock a star off. The application is so difficult.
1235022
This stuff worked really well outdoors to eliminate ants. They seem to get worse each year and noticed it works fast.
1468791
Best way to deal with Florida's pesky sugar ants!
500639
Maxforce Carpenter Ant Bait is an amazing product.  We were invaded with Carpenter Ants and an exterminator was very expensive.  I put some on a small paper plate and set it out.  Only a couple of ants were seen on the bait. The next evening, I put a small amount on a napkin and set it on the kitchen counter.  I spotted one ant on it prior to going to bed.  I was beginning to think I wasted my money.  Not so!  Since that night, I have not seen one Carpenter Ant in the house.  It has been about 10 days since my last treatment, so I don't think any of the ants in the nest have survived. This stuff works like Navy Seals on ISIS.  Well worth the money and I still have plenty left if I ever get invaded again.  I just wish I could give it more than a 5 star rating.
711926
When I started using this, it attracted a lot of ants to where you place it.  After the first 1.5 weeks, the ants seemed to disappear, or at least show in very few numbers. Then they came back with more ant friends. After about 3.5-4 weeks, all my ant problems have stopped for a steady 6 days now. So far it seems to have done its job. You just have to be patient with it and place new drops down every other day to keep it fresh.

The box came with little square drop placement cards you rip off the box, however you can also use aluminum foil, or pretty much anything you want except your pets as a mobile terro dispenser (Although the box doesn't specifically say this, it's not recommended). You can also use this outside, but I didn't.

It almost looks like hand sanitizer in the bottle, and after few hours to a day after you place drops down it turns into this extremely sticky and thick constancy. So be careful where you place it and make sure not to get it on any surfaces as it will be difficult to clean up. Some ants will get on top of the thick drops and eventually sink into it and die because they're stupid.

I liked this product and learned about it online and read the reviews. I had the common carpenter black ants. It worked for me, just took a little longer than I had thought to get rid of them.

*Update Feb 2014* I meant to update a long while ago, anyways - I never had any ants after that last round of ant parties. So I recommend this product. I no longer live at that residence, but I'm assuming the ants have communicated regarding this product as I haven't seen an ant in my new home since moving in.
2597480
I bought these after having no luck with the Raid ant baits.  I moved to Florida and started seeing tiny, tiny ants in my apartment bathroom, of all places.  Then I started seeing them in the kitchen.  The kitchen ants I was able to control once I found that they were nesting underthe  metal piece where the faucet meets the base of the sink. Ew.  Flushed that with a water/soap/vinegar mixture over, and over, and the dead ants washed right out.  Tracing the trails back revealed that the ants weren't coming in from a window, or door. They were in my walls. Ick.
So, the baits are really simple, although I was super worried about my dog, since these seem easier for him to get to than the black plastic ones.  I keep him out of the area, or place a piece of cardboard around the trap so he can't eat it, but the ants can still get it.
Holy heck- be prepared for a LOT of ants. I not only attracted every sugar/ghost ant, I attracted species I hadn't seen before. The ghost ants were all gone within 48 hours. The little black ants..those took about a week. They were coming out of electrical sockets and down the walls- it was a horror show.  And I bought more traps.  A tip- don't leave anything on the floor for them to hide under.  I picked up the bathroom mat I had draped over the side of the tub and HUNDREDS poured out. After gagging, gaping, and taking the mat outside to beat against a tree until the ants were gone and my skin stopped crawling- I returned and violated the trap instructions.  You aren't supposed to interfere with the ants.  But there were SO many on my bathroom floor.  I hit the whole swarm with vinegar/soap/water mixture, then wiped the carcasses away with a paper towel.  It probably added a few days to my total extinction time, but it was worth it.

After two months of not being able to use the bathroom without seeing a dozen ants scurrying past, I have not seen an ant in there for 5 days. I no longer feel the need to hold my feet off the floor when I pee.  I will continue to place a few traps out to curb new colonizations, and I will continue to use Terro traps. They work.
2474129
Perfect tool to clear my pool of tiny  ants. People who complain about the drag are trying too hard. Slow steady sweeps work best.
2848346
These work very well. About once or twice a year the ants decide they need to come in my bathroom. I leave one of these on the counter until I see no more ants (about a week) and then throw it away.
2177477
this stuff works. I put it down around kitchen and they looked like African animals around a watering hole. By the morning the thick stream was down to a few stragglers. I am going to keep this up for two weeks like the package says. I have the powder version for outside.

This liquid drop version is so easy to use. The bottle seams like it will last months.  I had been making my own ant bait, honey and Borax, but this is actually cheaper.
1630693
This is a pretty simple and effective product for those who would feed some needy Hummers.  This Stokes Select 38044 Ant Moat when maintained well with a good occasional cleaning out and filling will keep ants out of your nectar and save you some grief.
4546387
This stuff WORKS. I had an ant colony in my mailbox and it was gone immediately with the help of this.
4611869
I bought this at a store locally and actually met the owner of the company - a very nice man -concerned with people's health and the environment. I am glad to see I can get it on Amazon also. At the time I first bought it, I had little children and lots of ants that loved the food that my kids dropped on the floor.  Spraying Orange Guard on the baseboard, window sills, etc. where they traveled and using Grants Ant Spikes in the ground around my house - out of the way of my kids and pets, took care of the problem. The ants went away.  But, I needed to keep at it, over the years, because they come back, usually during winter. This last winter the Grant Spikes didn't seem to work as well.  The Orange Guard did a great job as it has always done. My 1/2 bath still gets ants sometimes, but not much, one or two a day, then weeks without any. I don't even use the Orange Guard, I just dispose of them.  Then a dozen come during the rainy season - and that is when I get out the Orange Guard. And that does the trick. KEEP at it and over a period of time, the ants will see your home as not a safe place and just not come around as much.

I have defeated the ant (and a few spiders, etc.) and I have not poisoned myself or my family in the process!!! Thank you Tor, for your 14 years of research. You are a blessing. All stores in America should sell your product.
3482075
Glad I ordered two packages , this works best when you have multiple traps placed throughout the area. I live in a basement apartment and had a terrible ant problem, after placing several of these throughout the apartment it looked like the ant apocalypse. I can not even explain how many dead ants there were, hundreds of thousands. After a few days of cleaning up near constant carnage , I no longer have an ant problem.
1753475
We used this product to rid our house of an ant issue, as well as help get rid of the ants that decided to invade our beautiful irises.
I highly recommended getting one of the little puffer application things if you're going to use it for household purposes.
We put the diatomaceous earth in a plastic condiment bottle and put a thin line around the baseboards and in some of the cracks in our hardwood floors. Then sprinkled it around the base of the iris plant that was being infested by ants.
961610
A really nice product that works as advertised. I had lots of problems with ants in my hummingbird feeder. It was a constant annoyance. I would remove the feeder and wait for the ants to go away. Then I would put the feeder back up, and instantly the ants were back. Then I looked for a solution and I found the Trap-it. So simple, and a wonderful solution. The ants have stopped and the feeder is just for hummingbirds and not the ants.