I have a baby in the house and I would like to use this product to kill ants in my house. Any precautions you suggest before I use this product?
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No there are no particular precautions needed. The small amount of borax, the active ingredient, is not dangerous to a human in such small doses. In fact borax is used in some cosmetics, tooth whitening formulations, water softening, laundry detergents, etc. The other main ingredient is a sugar to attract the ants so the only real concern is keeping the trap out of the reach of young children so they don't eat all your traps requiring you to buy more to get the job done... an annoyance, not a danger.
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Don't let the baby crawl on the floor and eat the bait. It is safer for the baby to eat the ants than the bait, although the tannic acid taste from the ants might dissuade the baby from munching on them. You might wish to alternate - baby on floor one day, bait on floor the next day, etc., until you're finished with the ants, one way or the other. Insects are generally nutritional to eat, and most have a high fat content which is very important in wilderness survival situations.
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I'd say it's very effective indoors. I had an indoor ant problem a few months ago. The ants are completely gone. I only used two of those in my kitchen and there were trails of ants to them for 3 or 4 days and then dead ants all over my floor in the kitchen and even downstairs in the bathroom for several days. Since then, around 2 months ago, I have not seen even a single ant in my house! No sprays ever killed them all, this killed the colony!
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You mix it with water before spraying. Please see the instruction. After applying it to ant mounds, do not spray water on them again. Hope this would help.
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I have used on the the common household ants and I am amazed at the results! No more ants!
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Not sure what type off ants you have.I have successfully used the product on carpenter ants, sugar ants, black ants.seems to kill most ants.
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You bet. I have used this product on both the little red ants and the big black ones. I just dealt with a new onslaught from the other side of the yard (entering the house through some hidden crack in the foundation) this spring and honestly, they're gone.
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I used this product indoors to kill cockroaches in kitchen area, which worked great! haven't seen one since I started regular spraying. Hope you find your answer soon
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My apologies Marilyn I spoke too soon.Try tree tanglefoot in the 15 ounce tub.I've only used the one type for spiders and insects in the house. It works great there.Tanglefoot says that Tree Tanglefoot is specifically for your problem, ants and other insects.Next time I will do more research before I answer.Good luckWalt
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If you have an old ant trap, just squirt a little in there, or a plastic tube of some sort. I usually just squirt a little around on the ground, where I see the ant trail which is up by my house. I find that this product is pretty safe around kids and animals. I have cats, dogs and grandchildren who are outside all the time. This ant bait is like gold, very little can,go along way. You'll see the ants swarming to the bait, but leave them alone. You want them to be able to take it back to their nest to kill them. Within a day or two they will be dead and gone.
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It's possible, this poison, dries them out from the inside. If the ants eat it or get it on them, it should kill them. If you spread it around their nest that should help but keep it away from animals and children. I spread it in the backs of cupboards and underneath drawers.
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I don't have any pets, so I've never had to deal with that situation, but just to be safe, you should place the Advion out of any pet's reach. It doesn't need to be placed in open, lower-availability locations. I usually put mine just above the kitchen sink and in the kitchen cabinets, which is where I generally see the ants. A portion the size of a pea is all you need. Two or three applications, once a day, over a two to three day period has always worked for me. Results are generally noticeable very quickly.
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It kills some types of ants. For ants you should try a product called Termidor. My cousin swears by this stuff. Chollabay, I hope this helps.
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Yes. This product will kill the ants that come in contact with it within 24-48 hours.
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This has ALWAYS worked for me. First you see a few ants and then when you come back a while later there are hordes of ants, its quite unnerving but you have to let it happen. Then suddenly they're gone and its over. I use this with house/black ants. Never fails.
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Yes... I used it in my home to kill large black ants (placing a bead of optigard in window corners, molding edges and such) and they were gone within days. I then used it outdoors on a tree where a large colony of carpenter ants had been living (careful to put the bait in deep, where only the ants would get it and not hurt other wildlife) and within just a couple of days there was no more activity.
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I don't believe this product is designed to be used indoors or for fleas and ants necessarily. This should be used in a propane powered outdoor fogger and is primarily for flying insects like mosquitoes, moths and flies etc. If you need a product specifically for ants and fleas I would use a liquid, spray on product in an aerosol can, one that is applied with a garden hose & sprayer attachment or a dust or granular type you sprinkle on the ground. Hope this helps..
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Termidor works best when sprayed where ants are currently active. It's a tracking solution that will go with them back to their colony before beginning to kill them.