Customer Reviews for
Maxforce Carpenter Ant Bait Gel

23 of 27 people found this review helpful:

   You won't be disappointed
August 9, 2007

This stuff ROCKS!! I killed like 5-10 ants a DAY by hand until I freaked and bought the Maxforce Carpenter Ant gel tube. Carpenter ants are super-finicky, but Thursday I started applying it. They sucked it right out of the tube (must be tasty!). Within a day ants were walking around like they were drunk. I kept feeding them the bait and within 3 days queen ants were walking around drunk and dying. And now this is day 7, I havent seen any ants today, except the ones I poisoned outside (die ants, DIE!). This stuff has been a savior. It cost $500 for an exterminator. I bought the granules too, as well as some junk from Home Depot. It helped, but MAXFORCE did the trick. You won't be disappointed.

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19 of 19 people found this review helpful:

   Worked great; highly recommended
May 26, 2010

My wife and I just bought our "dream house," only to discover a major carpenter ant infestation (which our pest inspector didn't detect). They swarmed on the first warm day; were all over our upstairs, in our infant and toddler's rooms, traveling through AC ducts. I ordered the Maxforce Gel Bait, along with Drione Dust, and Suspend SC. After reading some of the "how to" info associated with this site, and watching some YouTube videos, I did a little "hunting" at 2:00 AM, and found the ants' "trail." There were literally hundreds, if not thousands, of ants going between my house and the nearby woods. I tracked them between a rotting pine log, and a gap under my wood siding. The ant activity died down the next day, but picked up again to full strength by 10:00 PM the next night. That's when I started feeding them the Maxforce gel. In total, I feed them 2 tubes in one night. I put quarter-sized drops every 5-7 inches, on the rocks along the path. (I made sure my cats and dog were kept inside.) The ants LOVED it. It was amazing to me how they swarmed the drops. Each drop would get about 20-30 ants forming a circle around it, eating up the bait. I had to go out every couple of hours to give them more (they ate the drops clean). The next night, I tried to feed them some more, but they were not nearly as interested. Wonder why? Surely they can't "learn" that quickly.  In any case, two days later, my wife notices that 50 or so dead ants had fallen out of the AC vent in our bedroom ceiling. I cut into the dead log, and found hundreds of dead ants. There were dead ants along the "trail." Two days later, no more ant activity has been observed. Now I'm going to use the Drione dust in the cracks/voids, and spray Suspend SC around my house/foundation. BTW - I was super impressed with the customer service and support at DoMyOwnPestControl.com - it was definitely a pleasure doing business with these folks.

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11 of 11 people found this review helpful:

   An efficient bait.
April 16, 2007

I just received my order yesterday. This morning I decided to put out the Maxforce Carpenter Ant Bait Gel along a beam that I have seen the ants use as a 'trail'. I know they are more active in the evening/night, but wanted to get it out there. There were two ants scouting around when I put it out at about 10:00 AM. Literally 10-15 minutes later there were about 20 ants at the bait. An hour later there were at least a hundred ants, and 2-3 different types of workers! I was amazed as it was daytime and only about 47 degrees! Talk about an efficient bait. I placed some of the advance carpenter bait granules near the place, and closer to where I suspect a nest. I guess I'll just sit back and wait. If they work as good as they attract, we ought to be ant free in a short while! Thanks for your great product offering that's not in stores around here.

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8 of 8 people found this review helpful:

   It definitely works
July 1, 2009

I fooled around with sprays outside and the granules. I had carpenter ants on my deck outside and they were coming inside and built a nest in a wall. All the other poisons just slow them down, but they always come back. I put a few drops of Maxforce Carpenter Ant Bait Gel outside and within minutes they were all eating it. Now I just have to wait and see if it kills them. So far, so good. If you have carpenter ants, don't even waste your money on anything else. Nothing else is going to do the job.

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8 of 9 people found this review helpful:

   Maxforce Carpenter Ant Bait Gel
May 28, 2010
Verified Purchase

I purchased the Maxforce on May 18, 2010. Put the gel in many different places where the carpenter ants were traveling and watched them everyday for five days (5-10 ants at a time). The ants would not touch the gel. They would go near it and go right around. Not happy at all with product. Had to give it one star, would not allow 0.

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6 of 6 people found this review helpful:

   Great product, but be mindful
September 1, 2010

Great product, but be mindful of the containers end plunger. Be careful when inserting the plunger or turning the tube upside down accessing the end of the plug - the inner plunger plug inside the tube fell out backwards from that end of the tube, and in one plop dropped the entire contents of the tubes' Gel all over me and everything near. Otherwise great product in itself, and great Customer Service. Product 5 Stars Container Tube 4 Stars - there should be better instructions and prevention from that being able to happen.

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5 of 5 people found this review helpful:

   Crack for Carpenter Ants
May 4, 2009

I can now say that I've hand fed ants. They would stand up on their little legs and suck the poison right out of the dispenser tube! I fed the buggers almost the entire tube of Maxforce Carpenter Ant Bait Gel so either I gave them an early spring treat OR hopefully right now they're all suffering terrible tummy aches.

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful:

   Great for Yellow jackets in wall
August 25, 2012

I used maxforce to eliminate a carpenter ant colony and had some to spare. One late Summer I found yellow jackets entering a spot in my house 15-20 per minute (huge). We could hear them in the ceiling munching at the drywall paper in the attic several feet in! I thought what the heck, maybe maxforce carpenter ant would work so applied a dab at the entry one night. Next day, wow, they gobbled it up like the ants did! I applied a couple more nights until it went untouched one day -- solved! After a little research, I found out yellow jackets are chasing sugars in August-Sept and proteins earlier. So best results on the maxforce on Yellow jackets would be to wait for Late August-Fall and they will take the bait like candy.

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3 of 3 people found this review helpful:

   Great Product, works quickly and is easy to use!
May 6, 2010
Verified Purchase

We had problems with carpenter ants for three years and this year they were really bad, lots of workers and too many queens to count. I worked in pest control for 4 years and was not willing to utilize the conventional drill & spray treatment that I thought we probably needed. After reading a few customers experience w/ Maxforce Carpenter Ant Bail Gel I thought I'll give it a try before I call a pest control company. I applied the gel in the evening (not ideal) and as other customer indicated, the ants very quickly went to the bait and began eating it. In three days I saw maybe one carpenter ant & have not seen any in a couple of weeks. This stuff is wonderful and I love the idea that they are killing the nest. Even some commercial treatments can not be sure they treat all the nest locations when they spray. I am sold on this stuff and will recommend it to anyone dealing with carpenter ants.

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful:

   Lots of dead ants
July 18, 2011
Verified Purchase

Looks like it did great killing the ants inside my walls. I saw 2/3 ants eating the stuff and 1/3 of them scooping it up and throwing it away. (not sure if the ones that were just moving it were poisoned by touching it..) Either way, there are dead ants all over the place. The three other baits I bought at the hardware store did nothing, so this was great. I think I finally found the outside nest and now need to figure out how to destroy it completely.

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful:

   Finally no ants seen!
March 6, 2013

Last spring we had a swarm of winged Carpenter Ants in our bedroom. Each day more and more appeared and they covered the windows in our bath and bedroom. The only thing I could do was use my shopvac to "take em down". I bought an ant bait at Lowe's and called the number on the back pf the package and was told by the woman that "Yes, it would work on Carpenter ants". Not one ant seemed to go for the bait. I bought the combo Kit of the gel and solid bait and bait stations and placed them in the rooms where we were seeing the foraging ants. I had to coax some ants into the traps and saw that they went totally to the gel bait and not the solid. But after this, I didn't see the expected swarming around any bait stations. So one night I stayed up late and after about 2 hours finally found where they were coming out of the ceiling and I used the syringe to squirt some of the gel bait into the hole. The next day, in broad daylight, there were hundreds of ant on the wall where I had applied the bait, more than we had ever seen before. Then by the next day, it looked like the grim reaper really clobbered them as only 3-4 were seen. This was followed by two days were only one ant, each day, was seen. Today, not one sign of them. I will continue to put the gel into the hole for another week just to be sure. So in my case, the bait stations didn't seem to do the trick. I had to find the entry place where the ants were coming from the nest and apply the bait there in order to have them take the bait. So I hope that we don't have a swarm of them in the spring and we finally have done them in.

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful:

   Ants lost interest
July 18, 2010
Verified Purchase

How much is enough? I fed the ants the bait for three nights until I ran out. They ate it up on the first night at the satellite nest along my wall, but would not touch it thereafter. They would purposefully walk around it. At the main nest they ate an entire tube over three days. Some large adults have died,but they still keep coming. This is 2 tubes $35 later. Its getting expensive.

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful:

   Carpenter Ant Bait, MaxForce Gel
August 25, 2010

Howdy, Got the bait in good order and on time. The carpenter ant colony is DEAD! However, carpenter Ants are fussy eaters. They totally ignored the bait. I check during night time hours when they are most active. I tried a change in presentation and types of bait stations. Still no takers at the bait stations. I noticed my carpenter ants can't ignore other insects as food. I caught a few crickets. Diced them and placed crickets pieces on top of the gel bait in each bait station. Bingo, they could not get enough of those cricket pieces and ate the gel bait as well. Within two days all carpenter ant activity ceased, and I haven't seen a live carpenter ant in two weeks.

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful:

   Seems to work but the container is not well designed
September 18, 2012

The ants disappear every time I use this. However, since I had used this before, I found that the "syringe" container is very tricky to use. I read some of other reviews and see the same problems. The content sometimes seems to be stuck and then bursted out all over the place. Also, liquid runs out from the back side when you point the "needle" side up ward and gets on hand, clothes, or floor. The last pack I used got all stuck suddenly and when I tried to press the pump harder, the content oosed out up the pump instead of the "needle" end and gave me a mess. When I received the product this time, I pressed all the gel out to a container I prepared myself and don't bother to hang on to the "syringe" or the "needle" at all.

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2 of 2 people found this review helpful:

   Hasn't done the trick yet
February 19, 2011

I put out the gel a few weeks ago...putting it where I see the ants most active in my basement. I've watched to see if there is any activity around the bait. For a week and a half it seemed like they avoided it. I did, however, see random dead ants here and there. So I guess it was killing some of them, but I still have live ones, too. I also put out the protein based Advance bait granules which was suggested, since Max Force is the "sweet" bait. Carpenter ants have finicky taste buds, it seems. They have totally avoided the protein bait so far. Anyway, yesterday, we had a major warm up in the East and with it came lots more ant activity in my house....not happy about that. But I did notice that for the first time there seemed to be more interest in the Max Force gel. I hope this finally does the trick. I've used 2 tubes of this stuff, so far. Fingers crossed.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful:

   I bought this for carpenter ants.
July 18, 2011
Verified Purchase

I bought this because we had ants coming through the wall at a window, after doing a lot of homework this seemed the best product to control that. We had a hardware store brand ant bait out and they just ate that and moved on, I put max force on small aluminum foil squares and ants were totally wiped out in three days. It worked for me.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful:

   Maxforce Carpenter Ant Bait Gel
March 20, 2011

Used as directed but so far haven't seen any dead ants or reduction in the ant activity in the house. They don't seem interested in this bait at all.

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful:

   Use Sugar!!
July 29, 2011
Verified Purchase

I'm writing this to tack on to my other review from June. I noticed a ton of ants outside (still none inside, yay!) on my deck just waiting for us to open our sliding glass door. Literally, I would open my door and they would run towards it. As soon as I shut it, they would re-direct. I placed several dots outside on the deck where I saw them most frequently (about the size of a dime or nickel). This was during the day after work. At first they wouldn't go near it, but I remember someones review saying they liked honey and sugary things. I took a small sugar supply outside (separate from my major source so it wasn't contaminated) and sprinkled each dot with sugar. Of course I couldn't get it on the dot perfectly, but that's what was perfect about it; the sugar that didn't make it on to the dot attracted the ants to it. They attacked within seconds and the dots were gone by later that night! I haven't seen ants on my deck since. :) While I know that this isn't going to permanently get rid of them (I know they have a nest or two somewhere!! plus my neighbors most likely have them as well), I'm going to buy the Termidor in the spring and do a major treatment. THIS STUFF IS AMAZING! I've referred several people as well because I love it so much!

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1 of 1 people found this review helpful:

   Ant bait gel
May 23, 2011
Verified Purchase

Loved it! The ants feasted on it and within a few days, we have not seen the masses of them. The hardest part was to actually let them crawl around and eat. I had to resist the urge to stomp on them. Once in a while we will find a lethargic one here or there and we just put it out of it's misery. We have not looked for the nest yet, but figure they must be dead since we do not see them anymore. Great stuff!

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1 of 2 people found this review helpful:

   Maxforce Carpenter Ant Bait Gel
May 26, 2011
Verified Purchase

It does not appear that the Carpenter Ants I have in my home are attracted to the MaxForce bait. I've not seen them feeding on the bait, which I put in six different locations near where I see the ants. The bait has not reduced the number of ants we see in our home.

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