Ant Baits

When ants are already in your home or business and it's not possible to find or destroy the nest (or nests), then ant baits can be the most effective method of control. Ants will take the ant bait back to the nest and kill the entire colony, including the queen. Click here for more information on ant baiting.

Displaying 1 to 16 (of 16 products) Result Pages:  1      Product Name+   Price   Buy Now      Advance 360A Dual Choice Ant Bait Stations  Ants won’t be able to resist the dual choice bait matrix available in each Advance 360A Dual Choice Ant Bait Station. When the bait is carried to the nest, it will kill the queen and eventually eliminate the entire colony!  $68.50      Advance 375A Select Granular Ant Bait  Advance Ant Bait is a protein-based bait that eliminates common varieties of household ants.  $19.95      Advance Carpenter Ant Bait  Carpenter Ant bait formulated to kill carpenter ants.  $26.90      Advion Ant Bait Arena  Excellent control of ant problems with the new indoxacarb active ingredient  $38.90      Extinguish Plus Fire Ant Bait  Fire Ant bait with IGR and an added insecticide that kills fire ants and prevents the queen from laying fertile eggs.  $24.90      Gourmet Ant Bait Gel  Gel uses a special insect attractant that mimics honeydew and enhances bait acceptance by a variety of Protein Feeding Ants, Sweet Feeding Ants, and roaches.  $11.95      Gourmet Liquid Ant Bait - 32 oz. bottle    $18.95      Maxforce Ant Bait Gel  Effective against Argentine, Odorous House, Ghost, Pavement, and Little Black Ants.  $33.95      Maxforce Ant Bait Granular  Maxforce Insect bait offers a combination ingredients which satisfy the insects' changing tastes and nutritional needs.  $16.50      Maxforce Ant Bait Stations  Maxforce Ant Bait Stations start to kill ants in just six hours, and tests show 90% population reductions in just four days.  $26.00      Maxforce Carpenter Ant Bait Gel  Provides fast control in 3-5 days. Maxforce gel uses a delayed action kill so the bait is passed throughout the carpenter ant colony.  $24.50      Maxforce FC Fire Ant Bait - 2 lb.  An effective granular bait for eradicating fire ant colonies in lawns and landscaped areas.  $43.90      Niban Fine Granular Bait - 1 lb.  A moisture-resistant, fine granular bait that can be used indoors and outdoors.  $16.50      NiBan Granular Bait - 5lb. bag  This weatherized granular perimeter bait is used outdoors or indoors to kill and control cockroaches, ants, crickets, silverfish, carpenter ants, snails and slugs.  $39.50      Optigard Ant Bait Gel  Excellent ant gel that is highly attractive and long-lasting. Our lab tests have shown great results with Optigard.  $37.49      Uncle Alberts Ant Bait Gel  Uncle Albert's is effective for virtually all ants  $9.95  Displaying 1 to 16 (of 16 products) Result Pages:  1

How to use Ant Baits

Aerosols, liquid insecticides (such as Demand CS and Suspend SC) and granular insecticides (Talstar PL) are great for killing worker ants before they ever reach your home, or drenching ant mounds and nests when they can be located. But what happens if you already have a serious ant problem and the ants are already inside? What happens if you have no idea where the ants are coming from? In this case aerosols and sprays won’t be enough. For many ant species ant baits are the best control method, because baits kill the entire colony, including the queen.

The trick to baiting is to allow the offending ants to find the ant bait, eat it and then take it back to the nest to the queen. If everything works as planned, the ant bait will destroy the entire colony within a few weeks. When baiting, do not use aerosol sprays or other insecticides at the same time as these will kill the ants before they ever reach the bait. Make sure the bait is the only thing the ants have to eat!

At DoMyOwnPestControl.com we sell two types of baits: gel baits and granular baits. Gels can be applied in small pea-sized dabs almost anywhere ants forage, including window sills and in cracks and cervices. The granular baits can be spread in large areas such as crawl spaces and basements.

Sweet-loving ants are perhaps the easiest to control. Dr. Barb Ogg from the University of Nebraska recommends placing a ribbon of jelly about 1 ½ inches long on masking tape and then placing these “survey stations” in several places where the sweet ants are foraging. Once the ants start feeding on the jelly, you can place the poison bait nearby until the ants start feeding on that as well. The jelly simply helps you place the bait more effectively (saving you money and time), and the masking tape makes the jelly easy to remove.

Big-headed ants, little black ants and pavement ants prefer grease/protein-based baits such as Advance 375A Select Granular ant bait or MaxForce Insect Bait. Just as in sweet-ant baiting, place the granules in areas where you see ants foraging and make sure that they are taking the bait. Be patient and replace the baits as needed.

Carpenter ants eat a wide variety of food including sweets and protein. For carpenter ants use Advance Carpenter Ant Bait and/or MaxForce carpenter ant bait gel. Carpenter ants can be tough to control so many customers find that using the MaxForce Carpenter Ant Bait gel along with the Advance Carpenter Ant Bait is more effective. Carpenter ants forage during late afternoon and evening hours, so make sure the ant bait is available at this time of the day.

Once the baiting has been effective and the indoor/outdoor ant infestation is under control, you may want to follow up with a periodical spray insecticide (such as Demand CS, Talstar One, or Suspend) around windows, doors and other places of entry to make sure the ants don’t enter your home again.