The best way to keep insects like roaches from entering your basement or other areas of your home is to exclude them physically by checking for any gaps around doors, windows, pipes, and other utilities where they may be getting in. This may also include checking around a crawl space. You also want to be sure that you are keeping vegetation near the house trimmed and groundcover pulled back from the foundation so that the ground next to the house can stay dry and less favorable for these insects. A great product to use around the house and in a crawl space for roaches is Niban Granular Bait. This is a dry bait granule which can last through about 4 inches of rainfall. It also kills ants, crickets, silverfish, earwigs, snails and slugs. See more tips in our Roach Prevention Guide.
Niban Granular Bait is effective on a variety of protein-feeding ants, although the product label does not specifically list or exclude acrobat ants. A great alternative would be Maxforce Complete Granular Bait, which does list acrobat ants on the product label. Please see our Ant Treatment Guide for more tips on controlling this insect.
The shelf life of Niban Granular Bait is about 1 year after opening.
Unfortunately, Niban Granluar Bait is not labeled for spiders. When treating for spiders you want to look at two things that you can control: their habitat and their food source. We recommend you remove all the webbing that is in the area, and use a product like Transport Mikron to spray that would get rid of all the other pests that are in the area which is the spiders food source. While the Niban will control crickets, silverfish, ants roaches, and snails and slugs, it is not labeled like the Transport for a large variety of pest that are most likely in the area that are still a food source. You would need to eliminate their entire food source so that they will go look elsewhere for that. Transport Mikron is also labeled to treat for spiders as well should they actually come in contact with the product residual.
Niban Granular Bait - 4 lb. Shaker is applied at a rate of 6oz per 100sq feet. One bottle will cover a lot more than the 125 feet you need to treat.
Niban Granular Bait is attractive to targeted species and will not harm non-targeted species such as butterflies, bees, earthworms, etc.
Niban Granular Bait - 4 lb. Shaker is labeled for ants exept Fire Ants. It is also labeled for cockroaches in genearl and does not specify the types so should work for all including palmetto bugs. For Fire Ants we would recommend Extinguish Plus Fire Ant Bait.
Niban Granular Bait is not labeled for grasshoppers and we are not aware of a bait for them. We would recommend using Bifen IT for grasshoppers and many other insects in the lawn and areas around the home. Per the product label, the mix rate for grasshoppers is 0.25 to 0.50 fl oz per gallon of water per 1000 sq ft.
The manufacturer of Niban Granules only has to disclose the active ingredient(s) of their products. The active ingredient of this product is Boric acid 5%. For more information on the food based and other ingredients, we would recommend contacting the manufacturer (Nisus) directly at 800-264-0870.
The 40 lb box of Niban Granular Bait will be in one big bag not individually wrapped.
Niban Granular Bait would not harm lizards but you may notice a decrease in them as you kill the insects they feed on.
You can use a residual like Cyzmic CS Micro-encapsulated Insecticide in addition to Niban Granular Bait. Just be sure to not place the bait down where you have sprayed as it can contaminant the bait and make it less attractive. We have a video here for general spraying. You can place the bait further out then the spray around the foundation and use in bait plate stations if using inside to keep it off treated surfaces or use the InTice Border Patrol System outside to keep out of treated areas.
