Ant Killer Syrup Bait

The following factors will impact the amount of time it will take for the ant bait to kill an ant colony:

• Getting the foraging ants to find and feed on the bait – Even with the proper placement of the bait along foraging ant trails, the ants may not immediately go to the bait and begin feeding on it if they already have a food source they are feeding on (if this is the case, you need to find and eliminate that food source), or if the species of ant you are dealing with is not currently interested in a sweet/sugary food source (which the Maggie’s Farm No Spill Ant Kill and Ant Killer Bait products are). Ant species that do not show interest in sweet/sugary foods are typically looking for protein food sources in the spring when they are building their colonies. The Maggie’s Farm Roach Killer Gel Bait (that also works great on ants) is a protein-based bait that may work in this scenario.
• The size of the ant colony - Once the foraging ants feed on the bait and return to the colony to share with other ants in the colony, the length of time it will take to eliminate the colony depends on the size of the colony itself. The larger the colony, the longer it will take. Though you should start seeing fewer ants until the colony is eliminated.

It attracts and kills all common household ants except carpenter ants, fire ants, and harvester ants.

The Maggie’s Farm Ant Killer bait contains a variety of food attractants designed to attract foraging ants to it. Worker ants feed on the bait and take it back to the nest to share with the rest of the colony, which eventually will kill the colony. So not only is it normal to see more ants after you apply the Ant Killer Bait, it is also a sign that the bait is working. Over a short period of time, you should see fewer ants, and eventually no ants, once the bait has been spread to all the ants in the nest.

It is important that you DO NOT USE any insecticide sprays around the bait placements as you don’t want to do anything that prevents the ants from taking the bait. The goal is to eliminate the source of the ant problem, the nest. So you want the foraging ants to take the bait back to the nest to eliminate the colony.