While the ant bait will ultimately kill the worker ant, it interferes with the ant's digestive system and works slowly enough that the worker has time to get back and share the bait with the rest of the colony. This slow kill is needed to allow time for each foraging ant to make several trips to the bait and deliver it back to the colony.
As they travel, the ants drop a pheromone trail from the bait to the nest, which lets the other ants know where the food supply has been found. The natural substance, also known as sodium tetraborate decahydrate, has a long history of consumer usage. Today, borax can be found in many household consumer products, including laundry boosters, household cleaners, mouthwashes, eyewashes and toothpastes.
Whereas borax has a low level of toxicity for humans and animals, our borax ant bait is lethal to ants. Slowly killing the ants is the key to effective long-term ant control because it gives foraging ants enough time to consume the bait borax and share it with the rest of the colony.
It's also the reason why borax ant control is so effective at eliminating an ant infestation. The bait in ant traps is a combination of food that ants are attracted to plus insecticide, or "ant poison. Workers carry small portions of the bait back to the nest, where it is transferred mouth-to-mouth to other workers, larvae and queens to kill the entire colony.
Bait products must be slow-acting so the foraging ants have time to make their way back to the nest and feed other members of the colony before they are killed. Ant traps can be an easy and effective long-term solution to an ant infestation. However, because ants are so finicky when it comes to fulfilling the nutritional needs of the colony, getting them to accept the bait requires skill, knowledge and persistence.
Experts from the North Carolina School of Entomology and Plant Pathology suggest the following for successful ant baiting:. It's recommended to have an ant control professional handle the use and placement of ant baits. One of the challenges with ant traps is that they don't always meet the needs of the ant colony.
The foods that some ants are attracted to can change at different times of the year, so different types of ant traps may be needed at different types of the year. A trained pest control professional can help here. Ant baits can be an effective way to rid your home of ants. But, unfortunately, this type of ant trap does not work on all ants — especially those that are attracted to a wide variety of food. Additionally, some ants, like little black ants , may be more attracted to fat-based baits, while carpenter ants may be drawn to sugar-based baits.
A pest control professional can help identify the type of ants in your home and provide a comprehensive plan for ant control, and determine if there are additional concerns that may be associated with the ant species. While they take more time to work, bait traps can be more effective in eliminating a small ant problem compared to solutions like ant repellent or ant spray.
Ant repellents will discourage ants from entering your home for some time. However, the ants are also likely to come back after the repellent has lost its effectiveness.
Ant sprays can kill ants on contact and will continue to kill ants in the treated area, but they won't keep more ants from returning. And unlike ant traps, sprays won't transfer back to the colony, which is usually the infestation's source.
When an ant problem is larger than seeing a few ants near food or along a baseboard, consulting a pest control professional is warranted. Reviews are carefully monitored by our consumer care team in order to ensure product reviews are useful to other consumers. We reserve the right to not publish reviews that are inappropriate based on the following criteria:. We also reserve the right to correct typos before publishing a review. We would not alter the meaning of focus of a review in any way though.
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How do I set Reorder Alerts? You may have to wait several weeks for ant traps to wipe out an entire colony. Sugar baits typically work in two to three weeks while protein baits may take two months.
Each ant species has its own preferred food source. Ant identification is one of the first steps to properly eliminating an ant infestation.
Seek ant traps that are formulated for the particular type of ant in your home. All ant traps work the same way. The only variable is the type of poison used and the particular ants that it will attract. Read the packaging carefully if you take a DIY approach. Setting them on ant trails will make these traps easy for your targeted ants to find. The poison used to kill the ants can be harmful.
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