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Granular Bait
By Scott on 05/28/2013
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Good product, good price, delivered quickly
By Anonymous on 06/10/2013
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Excellent Product
By Anonymous on 07/23/2013
Several years ago I was the caretaker of a retreat for my church. One year I found carpenter ants on the outside of the retreat and one inside. I contacted a professional to take care of the problem. (This man has a Doctorate in Entomology and is a retired college professor). He used and highly recommended the product Advance 375 for ant and termite control. Ever since that day I've used and recommended Advance 375 to friends and others that have had ant problems. One Note; I liked Dr. Grable's outlook about insects: "They aren't pests until they invade out space"!
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Advance 375A Select Granular and Optigard Ant Bait Gel
By Margaret on 05/30/2014
We achieved the results we hoped for - no more Carpenter ants! This is a great site, informational and educational. It was easy to learn about the ants, which product(s) we wanted, and how to use the products. We had major problems with the ants last fall, and have had no reoccurrences in the six months since then.
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Worth the Price
By Sarah on 06/27/2014
Our lawn was infested with ants and we have a half acre lawn. I contacted multiple pest control companies - no one would touch it. After trying a variety of products last year with little success, this granular bait along with a liquid bait has worked wonders. Are all the ants gone? No. But after 3 weeks of using it, at least half of them are done and my grass is starting to grow back in. The only downfall is that my dogs are very much attracted to the bait as well so I have to be very careful when and where I apply it otherwise the dogs want to lick it up.
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Great product
By Mike on 07/09/2014
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100% SUCCESS
By Dave on 07/28/2014
I have 375A several times and I have always been successful. A professional explained to me how it works. This product takes time for the ants to feed the product to the queen. Results are not immediate, it takes one to two weeks for the bait to reach the queen and for the colony to die. It helps to locate nesting sites and to be more generous in application in those areas.
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Whoah. It works!
By Eric on 10/04/2014
I live in Southern California, so we are basically over-run with Argentine ants. Even though I read the reviews, I really didn't think that this bait poison was going to work so well. It would just be another tool in the losing fight against these pervasive pests. The ants attacked the granules like fat kids on cake, so I guess the bait profile was spot on. (It smells a bit like fish food) Imagine my surprise when after just 3 days of doing a broadcast spread around my property, I saw not organized rivers of thousands of ants but staggering dozens only. Three days after that and I could only count 30 ants on the whole property. The colonies were effectively wiped out. Next year they will be back but I will be ready.
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Tiny Black Ants
By Donald on 04/21/2015
We have had repeated invasions of tiny black ants, the most recent being from December to March in the (New England) winter of 2015. We've never had ants in the winter before. Hardware store products were of no use -- we tried them all. Finally, someone recommended DoMyOwn and a young woman there recommended this product. The ants took to it immediately (along with the gell) and disappeared from kitchen floor, counters and stove. A few days later there was a minor invasion, but another dose of the two formulas killed them off immediately. They are gone! A small down side: the product on a warm day has a very rich odor, but that one day was a small price to pay for such quick and thorough results. I recommend this product above all others we have tried.
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Excellent Product
By Greg on 10/27/2015
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YES!!!
By Paul on 02/05/2016
This stuff is awesome. We had a real bad carpenter ant problem in our house. They were entering through multiple locations into the house. I use the Demon WP outside, but that seems to have a limited effect. We sealed all the holes but they still got in. So I bought this and the gel and a hunting I went. The key is to hit them directly at the source. I would put it in the house, but it only held them off for a week or so. Instead I ended up tracking the ants back to their home and I would put a few tablespoons of this stuff right on it. Within hours they gathered it/ate it. The ant problem stopped immediately. THANK YOU!!
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Advance 375A Granules
By Dan on 03/10/2016
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Excellent compliment to carbohydrate bait
By Duane on 04/26/2016
I have used carbohydrate based bait for years with success but this year I took your advice and added a protein bait. To my surprise they hit both hard, it's only been a week or so, too early to judge results, but based on the amount of protein bait taken I am expecting good results.
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ant bait
By James on 06/22/2016
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Granular
By Bob on 07/04/2016
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Arizona Ants
By Antony on 07/11/2016
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Tiny Ants gone
By Dsg on 07/20/2016
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It works!
By Sd on 07/25/2016
Each spring, for 20 years or so, brings small black ants into the kitchen area of our house. Not too bad we just got clear liquid sugar liquid baits and they were gone 'til next spring. Not this year! A dirty dinner plate especially meat, would be covered with the buggers in no time. Like they came out of no where. The "Ant Control" page here mentioned that ants may decide to seek protein so I ordered this. I opened it and sprinkled some on an ant trail on our deck. They stopped in their tracks and started hauling it off. I poured out 5 small piles where the trails disappeared into the house and under the deck. Next morning the piles of bait were gone! That night, no more ants! Great website!! Great product!! (I would be careful putting this where the dog might catch a whiff of it. )
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Good results
By David on 08/02/2016
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Super fast action
By Rose on 08/17/2016
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Excellent Product
By Kim on 08/17/2016
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It works.
By Mark on 08/20/2016
Had the Maxforce (sweet) bait and Advance 375A. The ants definitely were in the mood for some protein. Put near ant trails and the trails disappeared over night. Use bait for about a week(It was dry outside). Then sprayed my foundation with Termidor SC. Ant population greatly reduced around my house. I don't see trails or groups of ants any more. Just rogues every once in a while and they could be on their way to meet their maker.
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This stuff works!
By Bob on 08/24/2016
I used a bit of the Maxforce FC Gel bait along with this stuff, but the carpenter ants mostly turned their noses up at it. I guess they were in a protein mode. Some of the little dirt ants went after the Maxforce, but I didn't really want to harm them so I stopped applying the gel. This stuff, however... I put down a lot of it(1/2 of a bottle!), and every single grain was scarfed up - by the ants in my house, and perhaps by the entire network. There was a line of the smaller carpenter workers running out to the pile of this stuff I'd dumped, and rushing back with it. 4-5 days later, I see hundreds of carpenter ants dead or dying on my living room floor. Nothing else has done that - not even trying to crank a duster bulb full of Delta Dust into the soffet vents of my house(the nest being up in the cathedral ceiling). No more activity - no sawdust or insulation fragments on my sofa for the last 3 weeks. This stuff saved me the trouble of getting up on a ladder and trying to pump Delta Dust into a hole high up on my cathedral ceiling woodwork. Instead, these hard working little dudes carried the poison up there for me, no ladder necessary. In addition, I used to see a lot of large-ish ants(probably all carpenter) all over the yard and driveway. Nothing now. Not a single ant(except for the small dirt ants). I think this stuff nuked essentially the entire supercolony, not just the satellite nest in my house. Nothing around the house, the driveway, the patio... Nothing. Thanks, DoMyOwn and Advance!
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Stuff does work
By John on 08/27/2016
Keep in mind this only works if you se carpenter ants You can't just put it down and wait for ants to find it it has to be an active trail. If you see ants in your house it's a myth your whole house is infested chances are you have a few colonies Outside and they are coming in for food. You do have to find the outdoor colonies for this to work I found them in and around mulch near the house and near some wood piles and a few tree stumps. You have to use granules out side And gel inside where you see them.use gel inside where you see them , then buy enough gel to go around house to put gel in every Crack or crevice in house . Just be ready to be freaked out when a few of them get in or one of them gets in put the gel near them I saw one in a picture window near mulch and tree stump then I went to store returned there had to be like 20 to 30 ants swarming the gel that night they were gone. You have to resist killing them so the gel will kill them selves. My only wish is that as soon as you put the gel down they'll smell it for anywhere then start eating it oppose to waiting when you see them, I guess no one invented that yet. We had a pest guy treat first year but we fired him cause all he did was spot treat
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Works Great
By Kim on 08/29/2016
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Not sure what review you would give a product as this
By Psc on 09/03/2016
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No more ants
By Jonathan on 09/05/2016
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Excellent results
By Dave on 09/22/2016
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It works
By Randy on 11/06/2016
So to be clear I used the granular and the gel as recommended. Not sure which one worked better but I can tell you I don't have ants anymore. Well not alive anyway! Really easy to use just used the bait stations with gel on one side and granular on the other. I made up two stations where I had seen activity and the next day I started seeing dead ants. In a week I can't find any ants alive.
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no more ants
By John on 04/26/2017