Product Reviews and Ratings - Fruit Flies & Bugs - Gourmet Liquid Ant Bait, Set of 6 from Gardener's Supply Company

Buy the Gourmet Liquid Ant Bait, Set of 6 on http://www.gardeners.com/

(based on 3 ratings)

Located in: Pest Controls, Home Pest Controls, Fruit Flies & Bugs

University studies show that ants prefer a liquid diet. These bait stations contain a "gourmet" liquid attractant that ants find hard to resist. When they bring it back to their nest, it kills the queen and the colony. The low toxicity borax based formula, is effective against carpenter, argentine, odorous house ants, and many others ant species (except pharaoh, harvester and fire ants) . Pre-filled packs mean no mess, and keep bait fresh.

"Gourmet" liquid bait is irresistible to ants

Effective against carpenter, argentine and many other ants

Kills the queen and colony

Effective borax-based formula

No-mess pre-filled packs

Use indoors and out

More information for the Gourmet Liquid Ant Bait, Set of 6

Review Snapshot®

Avg. Customer Rating:

3.3 stars

(based on 3 reviews)

67% of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Customers most agreed on the following attributes:

Pros:

Portable(3), Reduces number of pests(3)

Best Uses:

Home(3)

Describe Yourself:

Do-it-yourself(3)

the ants like it

By anne

from central connecticut on 3/7/2009

Pros:

Easy To Use, Is it safe, Portable, Reduces Number Of Pests

Cons:

How long will it last

Best Uses:

Home

Describe Yourself:

Do-It-Yourself

Bottom Line:

Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Gourmet Liquid Ant Bait, Set of 6:

I have a lot of ants, and I don't know how the product will work in the long run. In one place, many ants came, and I now see fewer. I will be interested to see how it works in the long run.

Decent product, weird packaging

By Beth

from San Francisco Bay Area on 3/2/2009

Pros:

Easy To Use, Portable, Reduces Number Of Pests

Cons:

Slow to become effective

Best Uses:

Home, Office

Describe Yourself:

Do-It-Yourself

Bottom Line:

Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

Comments about Gourmet Liquid Ant Bait, Set of 6:

I found this product to be fairly useful. The bait itself seems to be alluring to the ants, but I found that they wouldn't seek it out in the packaging provided. I don't know if the scent doesn't escape the trap very well or what, but I found I had to "bait" them to the bait by soaking the tips of Q-tips in the bait and leaving them around the base for the ants to find. This seemed to encourage them into the rest of the trap in 50-60% of instances, as they always swarmed the Q-tips, but didn't always continue into the trap. Once the Q-tip was dry, they sometimes still avoided the trap entirely. For those that did enter the trap, I found that many of the ants fell into the liquid, making the liquid sort of full of little ant corpses. This is fine, except that the bait is supposed to be taken back to the colony's nest and not kill them on the spot. I'm not sure if this altered the effectiveness of the trap, but I wondered if the mass ant mortality prevented other ants from continuing to feed on the bait.

All in all, I think the bait was a good product, but perhaps the packaging is flawed (?). I still have ants, although not as many. I am not sure if it did it's job inadequately, or if I just have so many ants that new colonies are replacing those that I've baited and killed!

[1 of 1 customers found this review helpful]

Made me antsy

By Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary

from New Hope, MN on 7/9/2008

Pros:

Portable, Reduces Number Of Pests

Cons:

Difficult To Use

Best Uses:

Home, Office, Professional

Describe Yourself:

Do-It-Yourself

Bottom Line:

No, I would not recommend this to a friend

Comments about Gourmet Liquid Ant Bait, Set of 6:

You have to cut the top of these while being careful not to spill them. Then you have to leave them exposed, with the poison sitting right out in the open. I didn't like them. They did work.

Customer Reviews about the Gourmet Liquid Ant Bait, Set of 6 at Gardener's Supply Company