Ant Killer

CanCan, 16 April 2010,
Categories: Giveaways, Mom stuff, Reviews

Ants. I can tolerate them singly, but when I see them attacking something in a writhing mass, I get extremely skeeved.

Once as a girl, I went out a-visiting and the person had a glass candy dish of tootsie pops. I tried to take a pop but when I picked up one, all of the contents of the bowl were stuck to it.

When I raised the clump of candy, underneath it all was hundreds of ants!

Like a scene from a horror movie! Nasty!

They must be stopped!

The best thing to do is give them poison that they can take back to their nest and share with their ant brethren.

Terro 300 Pre-Filled Liquid Ant Killer is made from a natural ingredient, Borax, which is safe to use around humans and pets, but is deadly to ants.

Ant foragers are attracted to the sweet liquid in the baits. They consume the liquid and carry it back to share with the colony (this takes a few days and is morbidly fascinating to watch).

In this way, the whole colony is eliminated. Bwahaha!

Next, you can use Terro Outdoor Ant Killer Plus to create a barrier around your house.

Once you have baited inside for at least a week, begin applying TERRO Outdoor Ant Killer Granules around the perimeter of the house to prevent reinfestation.

TERRO Outdoor Ant Killer Granules are packaged in a 3 lb. Shaker Bag™ and is designed to allow the granules to be easily distributed in a three- to five-foot band.

Good luck! Fighting an ant problem takes time!

For more information on how to get rid of ants, Ask the Expert at www.terro.com!

Thanks, Terro, for sending me samples of these two great products!

Terro is giving 2 winners a set of the same two products from this review.

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1 Jersey Mom
16 April 2010, 12:18 pm

Thanks for the tip. Ants are beginning to come out.
2 Sheena @ Sophistishe
17 April 2010, 1:44 am

A family of ants congregated around our front door last month. We figured Jayden had dropped something around the scene, but there was nothing to be found. Greg decides to check his shoes for any surprises. He turned one shoe upside down and out pours two chicken nuggets and a pile of ants…
3 CanCan
17 April 2010, 1:49 am

EEEKKK! Once about 6 years ago a ton of ants made a colony inside of an unopened box of ziplock bags. Eggs and all. *gag*
4 debp
17 April 2010, 4:20 am

I just have problems with ants in my herb garden. Not really where you want ants,either.
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5 debp
17 April 2010, 4:21 am

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6 Marilyn Wons
17 April 2010, 5:17 am

We often have fire ants on our lawn. One day last spring, when mowing, I stepped into a nest of them. I had burning bites on both of my legs. These bites are like little blisters that keep coming back. I am more careful now when in the yard.
7 Kim
17 April 2010, 6:30 am

well, I just found our first ANT COVERED CRUMB of the season yesterday.. gross…
8 Kim
17 April 2010, 6:43 am

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9 susan varney
17 April 2010, 7:02 am

i went to pour sugar into the sugar bowl and it had more ants in it than sugar mverno@roadrunner.com
10 Dina
17 April 2010, 7:15 am

My kids have been bitten severely by fire ants. One was climbing uphill and put her hands and arms in an ant-hill; the other stepped in one. Took weeks for the bites to heal!
11 Dina
17 April 2010, 7:21 am

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12 Dina
17 April 2010, 7:22 am

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13 Katie
17 April 2010, 7:33 am

I’m a subscriber! I am very interested in your where’s spot dvd contest, and your ant killer contest.
14 Tia
17 April 2010, 8:54 am

I took my travel cup from the cabinet and filled it with ice and green tea like I always do. I brought it to work with me and the cap kept leaking so I took it off. Inside of my tea was an ant! I was so grossed out, I almost threw up in the trash can!
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15 Tia
17 April 2010, 8:54 am

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16 shannon Baas
17 April 2010, 10:04 am

finding them in the refrigerator.
17 avis fisher
17 April 2010, 11:49 am

I have ants in my kitchen, I don’t dare leave anything lay out, it’s so nasty to see them trying to get into my cereal boxes etc.
18 Ann W.
17 April 2010, 12:55 pm

We were on vacation and just got home. Ants had invaded a bowl of candy on the counter.
19 Ann W.
17 April 2010, 12:56 pm

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20 Susan C
17 April 2010, 3:22 pm

I have a daily ant problem and can’t seem to get rid of them. It is really embarrassing when a guest finds an ant in their coffee or soda.
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21 Susan C
17 April 2010, 3:25 pm

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22 denise smith
17 April 2010, 4:05 pm

I just hate it when they come into the house and get into all the food, but I see them in my bedroom on the floor, next to my bed. I just get a creepy feeling that when I’m sleeping they might be crawling on me. I only have 2 bedrooms and my kids have those, I sleep in the storage room with the freezer and there isn’t any insulation or basement underneath, so I don’t have much protection from the outside. These would come in really handy.
23 Jaque
17 April 2010, 9:00 pm

I’m sure that my ant story is not nearly as disgusting as others have experienced…but I do hate the little creepy crawlys. I spotted a huge ant hill near my patio after seeing a trail of ants raiding my kitchen…I freaked!

Thank you.
24 Tabathia B
18 April 2010, 7:36 am

When we first moved into our apt after visiting & seeing it only once we discovered while putting up food in the cabinets that there were ants already living there and realized how bad the ants were after several weeks it seems once we stopped them one way they would come in some other way through the walls. They are really, really bad here and we don’t know why.

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25 Tabathia B
18 April 2010, 7:38 am

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18 April 2010, 7:40 am

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27 Sheila B
18 April 2010, 8:07 pm

Most days lately our driveway is so cocered by ants that you cant see the concrete.We have lost 4 big trees due to ants.Where the heck did they all come from? Its already so bad that I am afraid to let my 11 lb dog go out in the fenced in area, alone. I have only found a couple (of the big black ones) inside my house but it is a constant battle to keep them at bay.
28 Sheila B
18 April 2010, 8:08 pm

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18 April 2010, 8:16 pm

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30 Jeff
18 April 2010, 8:25 pm

I had ants all over my kitchen sink. Coming out of my garbage disposal.
31 Rick Gibson
19 April 2010, 11:34 am

I battle ants on a galactic level from March until November. Get them thinned down and they’ll be back in business in a few days.

I say, “Kill all ants!”
32 momznite
19 April 2010, 12:47 pm

Had ants by the deck door one year - yuk!
33 momznite
19 April 2010, 12:48 pm

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34 Marci
19 April 2010, 5:58 pm

RIGHT NOW ants are swarming all over my kitchen counters and my bathrooms. I HATE it. This happens every year and they are so hard to be rid of…..UGH!
35 Marci
19 April 2010, 5:58 pm

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36 DANIELLE WALDO
19 April 2010, 11:17 pm

Going on six years of ant battle for hubby, They show up with this huge hole in the back yard he goes out buys all the ant products he can find and they just keep comming back. Two years ago he caught me i poured Gasoline down the hole and lite it on fire. My husband was really mad at me he said i could have caught on fire and gotten hurt. We battle these little monsters because of our dogs we are afraid they will get bitten up by them. After talking with an exterminator we have found the reason our battle is not working. The Neighbors hahaha, Ants have several exits and entrances. So i went to the nieghbors and asked them if i paid for the exterminator to get rid of the ants will they allow him to come and do it. Was i ever shocked at there response NO, well now i dont talk with my nieghbors cause now wondering what they hiding lol. So would love to win and maybe this would be the end of my ant invasion.

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37 Jenn S.
20 April 2010, 9:23 am

Every spring we have tons and tons of ants, especially in the garden. Luckily, they haven’t made it inside - yet.
38 Linda Lansford
20 April 2010, 5:35 pm

They keep walking in thru the window next to my husband.
39 Kathy K
21 April 2010, 7:28 am

Nothing worse than waking up to that crawly feeling on your leg and you think it’s nothing but nooooo, it’s an ant!! Arrghh
40 Lucy Schwartz
22 April 2010, 12:28 am

We recycle aluminum cans. I drink diet soda and that is not a problem But the sugared varieties do draw the little buggers. Rinsing the cans does not eliminate the problem. So we know Spring has sprung with the entrance of the little armies of ants parading from our back doorr. And oh yes spring is here.
41 Kathy Scott
22 April 2010, 10:45 am

We did not have a single line of ants marching thru our kitchen. We had a major band at least five thick. Terro did the trick becuase they took it back to the nest.
42 Kathy Scott
22 April 2010, 10:45 am

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43 Kathy Scott
22 April 2010, 10:50 am

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44 Emily Roesly
22 April 2010, 10:00 pm

Help! I have 3 different kinds of ants in my bathroom! I tried putting down ant traps, but they aren’t even remotely interested. There’s nothing I hate worse than taking a shower with an ant!
45 Pamela S
22 April 2010, 10:13 pm

This is a timely post!! Okay…this is gross. Just a few days okay I came downstairs and saw where my cat had puked right by our front door. I got something to pick it up to throw it away and the puke was COVERED WITH ANTS!!!! I was so disgusted. So I have to get rid of those little buggers!!

(Hope you weren’t eating LOL)
46 Paul Greenberg
23 April 2010, 2:02 am

Looking for something like this for my ant problem
47 Tabathia B
23 April 2010, 6:47 am

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48 Diane Redcay
23 April 2010, 7:01 am

I remember grabbing a jar of peanutbutter out of the closet to make my kids lunch I opened the jar to find it filled with ants! GROSS
49 sarah
23 April 2010, 8:01 am

i put on my bathrobe just recently and felt something tickle me on my back. i took it off to find a tiny ant in there, ick! i know it was just one little one but where there’s one…. now i’m keeping my eyes open for the rest…
50 susan
23 April 2010, 9:43 am

great tip! I will be sure to use it to control the ants!
51 Carol G
23 April 2010, 9:54 am

Ants are a continual problem here, and just recently one of the kids left one piece of pizza in the box on the counter. When I came into the kitchen I noticed the marching line of ants, opened the box and found the entire inside of it (and the pizza piece of course) covered with the little pests. It left the house rather rapidly!
52 Amanda
23 April 2010, 12:50 pm

An ant story that we will never forget it when my daughter threw the crust of her PB&J sandwich in the bathroom trashcan when she was about 5 years old. We found the path of ants and followed them into the bathroom straight to the trash can. My daughter and I were both grossed out. Let me just say she never threw food away in the bathroom again and she is now 13. Thanks for the giveaway, it is that time of year.
53 Miranda Allen
23 April 2010, 2:30 pm

Ants are horrible they are worse this year than Ive seen in a while and I went into the kitchen fully intending to make my kids a Peanut butter sandwhich and They had managed to get into a CLOSED container. And Money was tight and There went a whole thing of peanut butter
54 Maja Meza
23 April 2010, 2:33 pm

the ants found my son’s easter basket and ruined all the candy. my son was sooo sad.
55 Maja Meza
23 April 2010, 2:33 pm

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23 April 2010, 2:35 pm

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57 Heather
23 April 2010, 4:09 pm

We have ant horrible right now. They are all around our door outside, and some how they are getting inside our house. One day I was sitting at my computer and all of a sudden I felt something crawling down my bad. It was an ant and it got in my pants. Of course I freaked out. We so need this! Thanks for the great Giveaway!
58 Mary B.
23 April 2010, 5:15 pm

I think our place must have been built on an ant hill! I learned this horrible fact when I first moved in and one of the kids dropped a piece of lunch meat in the kitchen. Next morning I was invaded! Ant traps or sprays don’t seem to do much. I would love to try this stuff.
59 Kim Benton
23 April 2010, 8:04 pm

I had baby ants last year somehow getting into my closed window. Yuck. So grateful for this offer.
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60 Jay F.
23 April 2010, 10:07 pm

Ants seem to invade our house every spring, and they show up in the second floor bathroom first. We are familiar with Terro.
61 Auriette
23 April 2010, 10:25 pm

It’s pretty nasty when my husband gets stung by fire ants, because he has a lot of allergies and they really swell up. Trick, though, my mom figured out that swabbing the area with white vinegar ASAP after you get stung will help keep the swelling down.
62 heather c
23 April 2010, 11:32 pm

Well, there are two stories. Once, a colony or two of medium sized ants invaded my pantry, which is in the middle of my house! They found quite a route that didn’t alert me to their sneakiness until I opened the pantry for a fig newton!
The next one involved me getting into bed (with my dark red sheets) and finding a whole colony of ants IN BED WITH ME! I don’t think I’ve stripped that fast before. They had come in through a tiny nail hole…so cover those things, will ya?! I was so shocked, I think I was sweating non-stop for three days!
63 Marcy Strahan
23 April 2010, 11:39 pm

I have them in my front bathroom ! They are comming in above the tub ~where there is this little window.
I have sprayed & sprayed inside & out.
Still, When I go to use the bathroom ~I find dozens of dead or dying ants in the tub!
64 Marcy Strahan
23 April 2010, 11:41 pm

I am already an email subscriber!
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23 April 2010, 11:44 pm

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23 April 2010, 11:48 pm

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67 Lily Kwan
24 April 2010, 1:22 am

I got stung by red ants when I was a little kid. =0(
68 Lily Kwan
24 April 2010, 1:29 am

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