Customer Reviews for Dominion 2L Termiticide

I had a major infestation of flying drone termites in my house. I trenched around my entire house 6-8" down and 4-5" away from foundation where I could and drilled a 1/2" hole 18" deep at the stoop and driveway every 10" and applied Dominion 2L at the rate shown for heavy infestation. I still had them in my house 5 days later though not as bad. I then went to the basement and exposed the exterior framing at the foundation and proceed to spray the BoraCare. 1/2 way through this process I found huge piles of dirt and trails a plenty underneath my front door. At this time I saturated the wood using the Dominion 2L. It is now over a week since then (2 weeks since treating outside) and I am still finding one or two termite upstairs everyday.

  Expert response:
Dominion 2L is a non-repellent termiticide, meaning it does not kill the termites right away.  The product is a delayed kill so the termites above the ground have time to take the product back to the colony and the queen that is below ground.  This ensures that the colony is completely eliminated.  For this reason Dominion 2L and all other non-repellents including Termidor, take up to 90 days to kill a termite colony.  So it is normal to see activity for up to 90 days after treating your home.

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191 of 210 people found this review helpful

I don't know why the wood adjacent to my bath tub wet-wall was moist? I found no leaks and the plumbing vent to the roof was well sealed. Condensation? The bath drainpipe and water inlets come up through a hole in the slab. The subterranean termite varmints tunneled 10' or 40' under the house slab and surfaced at this point of exposed earth attracted by the moist wood. They swarmed the first warm days in Spring. I treated the exposed earthen area with the Dominion 2L termiticide and then filled it in with sand which is known to obstruct termites. I treated the slab, wood framing, floor and molding with a 2:1 water to Bora-Care mixture. I sprayed Bora-Care down from the attic and drilled holes in the walls where there was no other access. I finished by treating the ground around the house with Dominion 2L. This is my first experience with a termite infestation and my problem appears to have been solved for under $170. I Thank DoMyOwnPestControl.com for providing professional products at fair prices.

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180 of 190 people found this review helpful

I used this material to treat a very large tree in my yard that was being attacked by termites and large black ants. I previously used products from Home Depot; a complete waste of money. Within one day, I could not find any activity.

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122 of 124 people found this review helpful

I found the process not that difficult.  I used a short pickax to dig the trench, and needed 2 containers of Dominion. I found the tech support from the website to be great, but still have to wait a while to see if all termite activity ceases.  So far so good, no new mud tubes, and its been 3 weeks since the application.

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64 of 67 people found this review helpful

I trenched around my house (using a small pickax) and applied Dominion 2L as directed by the very helpful staff at DoMyOwnPestControl.com. It's a month and a half later, we replaced a threshold that was eaten up, and there doesn't appear to be any signs of termites.  This wasn't easy, but it saved a bundle. Also the carpenter ant gel sold on this site is very effective. Thanks again!!

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60 of 62 people found this review helpful

Bought this originally as a systemic to control scale on my Canary Island Date palm. Found out that it is the same chemical used in some pet products to control ticks and fleas so I consider it somewhat pet safe to use around the house outdoors. After reading the label information I found out it also control Chinch bugs in the St Augustine grass here in Southwest Florida. Worked better than the dry bagged products sold in home centers.

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35 of 35 people found this review helpful

Great product at a great price. I had my previous house professionally treated with Termidor at a cost of over a $1000 dollars. Did a similar treatment at my new, slightly larger, home myself with Dominion 2L at a cost of about $90 dollars. I expended a bit of sweat doing the trenching and back-fill, but was definitely worth the savings. Everything I've seen indicates that Dominion 2L (Imidacloprid) works similarly to Termidor. Works slightly faster than Termidor to kill the affected insect. This is good, but it does slightly decrease the likelihood of spreading the pesticide in the colony. Otherwise has a similar span between retreatment times (7 years as compared to 10 years for Termidor). Received my order very quickly, only 2 days after ordering.

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34 of 35 people found this review helpful

The best product at the best price I have used for aphid control on trees and bushes. I use as soil drench (systemic) whenever possible; works great as a contact/spray also. DoMyOwnPestControl has the best prices on this excellent product. Active ingredient: Imidacloprid @ 21.4% - about 15X the strength of typical store products.

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32 of 33 people found this review helpful

Previously used Merit for 10 ash trees at a total cost of $500 per year. Thanks to advice from DoMyOwnPestContol, I was able to treat my trees with Dominion for a total of $90. Dominion was much easier to use as it is in a liquid form vs the dry Merit. Only time will tell if all the treatments the past 3 years have been effective. But so far there is no sign of infestation and we live in an area that has infestation of the EAB near by.

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28 of 33 people found this review helpful

After searching the Internet and finding out that the treated ground your house is build on only lasts for 15 years. I bought Dominion 2L instead of paying a pest control company. I was able to apply the product myself around my foundation with a shovel and 5 gal paint bucket, says it's good for seven years, so I guess you won't hear from me for 7 years. Thanks, Julia

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28 of 29 people found this review helpful

For about the past 5 years i have been losing my fight against carpenter ants. Nothing available in the mega hardware stores or local garden centers seems to work. I have always been able to find ants pretty much everywhere. I was pretty much resigned to call a professional exterminator when i thought to search the internet and found you. after a single application of Dominion on the exterior of my house, a full week later and i cannot locate a single carpenter. I have probably spent $300-500 dollars in the past few years on stuff that didnt work at all so this is one of the BEST purchases i have ever made. THANK YOU for being there! DoMyOwnPestControl has made one of the major annoyances in my life go away. I WILL be back and i will be recommending you to my family and friends.

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23 of 28 people found this review helpful

I have a shed on remote property in the mountains which I visit every two months or so. On one visit, the shed, built on a wooden platform, was infested with ants. From research on the internet I determined by their behavior that they were carpenter ants. Insecticides from home improvement stores killed the ones I could see, but later, millions more attended the funeral service. A good band treatment in a 2 foot (or so) wide band from a 2 gallon plastic watering can around the shed with Dominion 2L and no more ants in the shed. I've since treated around some of the pinion pine trees where they still frequent. I'll find out on my next trip in October '11 if it did as well there. When you mix the concentrate, be sure to wear rubber gloves as it can be absorbed through your skin if it splashes on you. The concentrate, which resembles whipping cream, requires very thorough mixing or you'll end up with concentrated product pouring on the ground when you get down to the last few ounces.

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22 of 22 people found this review helpful

Thanks!! Works great, no more ants or termites here!!!!!!!!

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21 of 22 people found this review helpful

Bought this stuff twice now to control Ash borers as well as pine borers. I mix it with some powered fertilizer in a 5 gal. bucket to drench the tree trunck. Almost cut down two of my Austrian pines last year but decided to give this a try rather than use the stuff made by the same company that makes aspirin. This year, the tree has become green again and is growing again. Can see where borers "try" to get a foothold, but then find them dead all around the tree. My ash trees are the envy of the neighborhood and have never looked better while several neighbors have had theirs cut down. Everyone now asks what I use to keep them so beautiful, I just show them the bottle and watch their reaction when they compare it to their brand (the aspirin maker). 0.1% of active ingredient for that brand vs. almost 26% for this stuff. No contest. Also great for use around perimeter of the house as it appears to kill almost any type of pest. No ants, termites, millipeds, nothing! May seem expensive, but it's truly worth every penny and actually much cheaper than that other brand when you consider the mix rate. I highly recommend this product.

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20 of 21 people found this review helpful

I bough this product to treat my ash trees but no instruction how to treat ash trees for emerald ash bores.

  Expert response:
For systemic treatment, apply Dominion 2L as soil drench at a rate of 0.1 - 0.2 ounces per inch of trunk diameter. Apply uniformly as a drench around the base of the tree in not less than 10 gallons of water per 1000 square feet. Direct application to the root area. Remove plastic or any other barrier that will stop solution from reaching the root zone. You should also contact your local Cooperative Extension office to see what active ingredient is most successful for treating this pest in your area.

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17 of 18 people found this review helpful

Arrived quickly.  Advice from Domyownpestcontrol.com made this easy to pick to solve my termite issue. This material is easy to use, mixed it in a 5 gallon bucket and treated the house in about 1 hour. Would recommend to others. I'm sure I've saved a bundle

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14 of 16 people found this review helpful

Easy application and works great on my ficus hedges.

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12 of 13 people found this review helpful

The problem with underground insects are how hard they can be to kill 100%. I'm fighting off Root Aphids from a indoor nursery. I tried many other methods that only slowed them down a little temporarily. The first application is in the pots, and I have yet to see one of the little monsters crawling anywhere. It remains to be seen if this is only a set-back or a total kill, but I'm feeling very hopeful since this is the longest I've gone without seeing at least something alive.

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11 of 12 people found this review helpful

I have used this for several years on my ash trees in northern Ohio. The untreated ash trees in the subdivision have all succumbed to the emerald ash borer. My trees continue to be healthy.

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11 of 11 people found this review helpful

I used it for Whiteflies, neighbors on both sides of me and behind have had their Coconut Palms, Christmas Palms, and Hedges destroyed by the Whiteflies. All my Christmas Palms which butt up against some of them are like Roses between the thorns. Thanks to Dominon2L used as a drench.

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10 of 10 people found this review helpful

I've had years of problems with late summer leaf loss due to a leaf miner on my willows. Many attempts to control it with various sprays were not successful. I noticed some improvement late summer 2008 after the first application of Dominion that spring. The second application in spring 2009 resulted in about 90% improvement by late summer. 2010 will be my third application. One 23 oz. bottle treated my 12 trees. Application is easy - dilute with water per label and pour on the soil around the tree at the drip line one time per year in the spring.

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9 of 11 people found this review helpful

I started treating our tree as soon as I heard about the emerald ash borer. We now have seven infected and dying ash trees on our property, but, the tree I've been treating with Dominion 2L is green, healthy and pretty.

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9 of 9 people found this review helpful

Using this to control white grub larvae. Treat your lawn with this at proper time and it is a very economical way to control grubs and mole cricket hatchlings

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9 of 9 people found this review helpful

I had little bitty brown ants that were eating my vinyl sided garage door. I used the void between the driveway and the garage floor to pour the solution into the ground and luckily found their main nest was in a crack in the cement which I also saturated with the solution. Although this was time consuming (4 gallons every ten feet), it was well worth the effort to save the cost of an exterminator. Within a week, I had so many dead ants that I used my leaf vacuum to remove them and a week later had more dead ants to remove. Now there is no further evidence of ants destroying my garage door. I gradually did the entire exterior of my home. I would recommend purchasing this product.

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8 of 12 people found this review helpful

I purchased Dominion 2L as a cheap alternative to fipronil containing chemicals. My primary use of this product is for carpenter ant control. I have made just one application to the perimeter and eaves of my home. I believe that the ant problem has been mitigated thus far, and with just one treatment. I also used Dominion for flea and tick control for pet areas since it is the same ingredient in Advantix II.

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8 of 8 people found this review helpful

Fast service. Much more reasonable buying from DMOPC than from the local nursery. Not looking for instant results just trying to protect my trees (120) from EAB and Japanese Beetles.

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7 of 8 people found this review helpful

I haven't used the product yet, but order fulfilment and shipping was very prompt in addition to their response to a remark I left praising their website on my order. A company I will do business with again, that's for sure!

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7 of 11 people found this review helpful

I live in southeastern Pennsylvania, and this summer, for the first time, southern pine bark beetles (SPB) attacked and killed an eastern white pine in my back yard. Blame it on global warming. The SPB infested the tree in the early summer, and it was dead by August. It was probably dead sooner, but the tree didn't turn red until early August. There must have been 100,000 beetle larvae, pupae, and adults in the tree. I cut it down and removed the wood. The blue-stain fungus that the beetles carry was in the trunk. Now my worry was for the eleven other eastern white pines in my plantation. I knew that Bayer Merit was a listed insecticide for SPB. It can be applied as a soil drench, which is easy for a homeowner, but very expensive because Merit is a patented insecticide. Now the patents have expired, and generic immidicloprid can be purchsed instead. Dominion 2L is a high strength concentrate of immidicloprid. I sent an order for Dominion 2L to Domyownpestcontrol.com, and the return shipment was prompt and accurate. I mixed the concentrate to get the applied concentration according to Bayer Tree and Shrub Insect Control, which is somewhat higher than Dominion 2L recommended. The final strength was 0.07 ounce per inch of circumference of the pine tree, measured 5 feet above the ground. My largest pine has a circumference of 35 inches, and used 2.5 oz. of Dominion 2L, dissolved in about 3 gallons of water. I poured it on the ground around the base of the tree, 2 feet out from the trunk. I have been checking the surviving pines for infestation, and they are still free. I can't credit Dominion 2L, since successful attack by SPB depends upon tree health, and rainfall. Drought or a weak tree allows them to infest the bark. Now the tree they attacked suffered both of these problems. We had a drought in June and July with 100+ temperatures. This, no doubt, facilitated the attack. I used the Dominion on the survivors, because that course of action is recommended by arborists, and pre-emptive controls are the only defence aginst SPB. The good news, if there is any, is that Dominion 2L is about 1/4 the price of Bayer Tree and Shrub Control, and more convenient, because it is a high concentration. The other good news is that DoMyOwnPestControl.com has good service.

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

The product works great...killed termites right away... The company ship the product right away. I would recommend this to anybody....I have saved Over $1000 by doing it myself

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7 of 7 people found this review helpful

Excellent product, natural product made from nicotine/tobacco. I use it in my potted plants to kill gnat larva in soil and as a systemic for scale and foliar feeding insects. Stays active for long periods.

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7 of 9 people found this review helpful