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THIS IS THE STUFF YOU WANT!
I'm amazed! I. am. amazed. Ants looooove this stuff!
I bought a house in Autumn and in Spring, multiple ant colonies woke up went to work. They were everywhere. It was an ant onslaught!
I tried other stuff, but I couldn't tell if I was suppressing/chasing the ants around the yard, so I gave this stuff a try because of the great reviews and I am now a confirmed believer.
I filled a shot glass and sprinkled the granules on an active mound and the ants were like, "Derp derp derp... I'm an ant walking around... derp derp derp... Whoa! What's this stuff?!" And they grabbed the granules and RAN back to the nest. Right then, right there! They were sooo excited! They were like "GUYS! GUYS! LOOK WHAT I FOUND!"
Then it was game on...
I grabbed a beverage and the big container and went on a mission to sprinkle Amdro on all the ant trails I could see and it was the same result from the ants: "Whoa! Everybody needs to see this." And they'd grab the poison and run.
After I got done treating the ant trails I could see, I went around and sprinkled Amdro on places I had seen ants hunting before and lo and behold, not 10 seconds after dropping grains on what looked like ant-free concrete, some of the granules started to move. The ants had come in from the edge of the concrete, grabbed the Amdro and RAN for their nest. I sipped my beverage and watched the ants make their way home and sprinkled more when I found their hideout, which was concealed in a gap in the pathway. Ants in the grass came in to grab the stuff. Ants in the nest came out to grab the stuff.
I went back to the original mound where I sprinkled this stuff and the ants were SWARMING to get the Amdro. It was like, "ALL HANDS ON DECK! RECOVER THE GOLD GRAINS FROM HEAVEN!" So amazing.
That was yesterday. Today, the ant activity is a fraction of 1% of what I saw yesterday. There are some ants here and there, but the major ant infestations I saw yesterday are gone. It's like I'm looking at survivors wandering through the devastation of Antpocalypse wondering, "What happened?? What went wrong?" I'm hoping the rest of the ants are in their burrows, happily munching on the Amdro and feeding it to their queens as fast as she can chomp it down. From the other reviews, I'm guessing that's exactly what going on.
I'm going to grab another couple containers of this stuff and conduct pre-emptive area denial operations out to the perimeter of my property and probably over the fence to some of the overgrown areas of my neighbors' yards.
In case you're wondering, I had my chemist wife take look at the active ingredient and she says it's an analogue of boric acid, but without the ant-equivalent of a bitter taste. From what I've seen, I'm a believer. The ants act like it's the first time they've had bacon.
May 2019 · Patio Lawn and Garden · verified purchase