Does it kill all insects indiscriminately? I just want to get the ants, not the lady bugs, worms, and god forbid - bees!
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I only used it on huge fire ant bed. Didnt notice anything else died. It took 3 applications but they seem to be gone. We will see over the next few months if they come back.
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It kills all insects even worms and bees of types :-( but does its job :-) hope this helped
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This product can be harmful to bees. We have not have data available indicating whether the product would be harmful to other beneficial insects such as lady bugs and earthworms. When applying the product, we would recommend avoiding areas where lady bugs and earth worms may come in contact with it.
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I can't give you a shelve life. I bought it some time back ( ie months) and have used about a third of a syringe. I have a small ranch and have several types of ants. Large red, Fire ants, very small sugar ants, Wood ants, so there are plenty of ants and it has been effective for whatever try's to invade the household, as I no longer have ants in the house. I use another product for outside primarily for fire ants. Good stuff..
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With 100% certainty, Max force ant bait get is the ONLY product i will ever endorse! The chemical is called Fipronil. There is other gels/sprays etc. but if it doesn't contain Fipronil as the Main ingredient...don't buy it. I also bought a bottle of Taurus SC, its a concentrated liquid that requires to be diluted with water. The combination of these 2 items inside & outside has kept me & my neighbors "odorous ant" free for the last 3 years. I highly recommend it. Just apply it, & do not kill any ants, you need them to carry out the chemical to the Queen which will destroy the ENTIRE colony..Good luck & I hope i helped..
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It says it kills them. I haven't used it for them specifically but it works for everything I have used it on.
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Carpenter ants are a pain!. I use a sugar and borax mixture to kill the whole lot of them works better than anything else I've tried.good luck!
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YES! This product kills cockroaches, ants, stick bugs, bees, etc. I love it. My friends all use it on their houses. I can't say enough good about it. This is a good investment, and it lasts a long time.
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I sprayed this directly on ants and it didn't kill them. I sprinkled baby powder on ants and it worked (as did Chlorox Clean up). I've made boundaries of the baby powder and it blocks the ant trails until it blows away.
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yes it does kill carpenter ants. I used it for termites and it is a terrific product. The ants will carry the foam backto the nest where it will kill all that come in contact with it.
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The Orange Guard has killed every insect that I've sprayed. I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't kill the termites as long as you can get the spray on them.
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Hello Christopher, My daughter lives in VA & she says it most defiantly kills them. She said it takes a little longer, but oh yes they are dead. We have the pine beetles here in the North West & it kills them also.
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I didn't try it w/fire ants-put a dab of this gel in the apartment once( 2/3 of one tube), all pesky roaches were gone in one week!! Our apt manager then bought the rest of our supply because nothing they used seemed to really work. On fire ants the stuff from Walmart w/a fire ant pic on it-the instructions say wet the granules after putting in and around the mound but I seem to get better luck not wetting it.....does Amazon sell fire ant killer?
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Greg, In general its not a wise choice to spray any kind of concentrate for ants. The reasons are many but the big one is that they can detect most any active. And once they detect it, they'll stay off the treated surface and avoid where its been applied. This will usually force them elsewhere and essentially complicate the situation. And since the ants you see represent less 10% of the local nest, even if you did kill all the ones you see it wouldn't solve the problem. So what do you do? Well for starters, don't spray inside the home. Instead use a bait. Something like Maxforce Ant Gel or Optigard Ant Gel. These options will readily be accepted by any foraging ant and within a few days, be brought back to their nest and once ingested, kill a bunch of the colony. At the same time you should spray the homes exterior with a "non repellent" active such as Phantom, Optigard Flex or Dominion. These actives won't be detectable by the ants and in turn, they'll readily walk over the treatment. This will allow them to "transfer" the active to other members of their colony so when the active finally does "kicks in" and goes to work, it will kill most if not the entire nest. That will usually happen in 3-4 days following the initial application. The good news is any ants surviving this will in turn know to stay away from the old ant trails for fear of something "bad" in the area so even if you don't kill them all, the non repellents will usually take care of the problem by forcing them elsewhere. Give us a call if you need more advice; its kind of hard to explain all of this via a post. Cheers, Jonathan Customer Care U-Spray Bugspray
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It worked. I used it on yellow jackets, wasps, carpenter bees, and carpenter ants. Killed 'em dead, though not instantly. I find a 2-5 minute delay from spray to dead. You do have to spray in on the target insect, though.
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Hi Dorothy, thanks for the question. I actually purchased this for the treatment of carpenter ants! I had a terrible invasion in a dead Fig tree limb, you should have seen them! Unfortunately I cannot post links here, but if you go to YouTube and search "boric acid kill ants" I'd suggest the videos by CupRockTv as well as gregthegardner. I don't own those videos, but I just did a bit if checking for you and I can recommend them. Let me know if you need anything else and have a fantastic day! -Nic
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While not an expert on ants, I do believe (based on the pictures) that I have some carpenter ants at my cabin. This Terro Ant Killer has greatly reduced my ant problem with all ants. There are still a few but nothing like before. For the price, it's definitely worth trying. I've got to order some more for my mother who has an infestation of thousands of small ants in her house. Wish I could answer your question with 100% certainty. I would, however, be surprised if it didn't work on carpenter ants. Terro has a website where they will answer any questions or concerns that you might have. http://www.terro.com/guide-ants.php
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I cannot say anything about the ants but I managed to exterminate cocroaches who are the great survavals. The substance have no smell and did not influence the state of health anyway ,though I used it all around the kitchen floor in all the corners and crevices.Nither of my family members complained. I had to repeat the spraying a couple of times until all the disabled creatures died out. I think that the substunce is magic. Very glad that I was recomended to use it.
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I think it works on all ants. I'm not sure though since I'm from New York and I used it strictly for bees. But I think it works on all insects - and more... For example, I also had ground bees and when I sprayed it into the ground, not only did the bees vacate, but worms were running (crawling) for their life too!