Bayer 10072 Max Force Fleet Ant Gel, Light Yellow

This product is amazing. I had carpenter ants for weeks after I had a new wooden deck installed. I searched for a product and found this from a high rating on chatgpt. I put this in the crevices all around my deck porch. You could see the ants going for it. The next day there were fewer of the carpenter ants and the 2nd and 3rd day they are gone. I am amazed. I thought I would not be able to use the deck for months because of the amount of ants. Now it is clear. Also this product is extremely easy to use with maximum satisfaction.

This stuff really works! Best I’ve found for ants.

I had a very large carpenter ant infestation in two of my mature oak trees, it wasn't until I lost a very large branch of the tree that I saw the large black carpenter ants in the fallen part of the tree. After some research I discovered that these ants are very active at night. Armed with a flashlight I went out to my trees around midnight and was shocked at the activity I saw, these ants had several satellite colonies around the base of the trees and were running a line up and down the trunks, thousands of ants on both trees running from top to bottom my trees were infested and these ants have obviously been there for a very long time. My knowledge of ants is that they will either eat sugar or protein so I ordered both types of bait, Max Force Gel was my sugar bait and Advance Granular was my protein bait. In late August of 2019 I started my attack, I placed a small amount of Advanced Granular out and saw that the ants ran to it almost instantly and carried it away, subsequent applications a few days apart did not have the same effect as the first application the ants would almost ignore it but by morning I would notice some bait taken. Thinking that the ants were suspicious of the granules or just changed their taste to sugar I began placing small dabs of Fleet near their lair's at the base of the trees and beside their travel lanes on the trunk of the trees. After about two weeks I completely knocked out the ants in the first tree. Gone no trace at all. The second tree with the larger infestation was now a noticeably smaller colony size but still very active. Not wanting the ants to reject the bait I applied it in the same areas about one every week and a half, spot checks every week or so showed the ant activity getting smaller and smaller, instead of thousands of ants running up and down the tree I would see a handful here and there. By the end of October 2019 the ant colony in the second tree had been eradicated, I can not find one single ant. If you have a carpenter ant infestation this will knock them out, as long as they are feeding on sugar. It's not a one and done application, be persistent and apply the bait near but not on their lanes of travel. This is a slow acting bait and eventually the colony will be eradicated. I will also note that the bait may sometimes come out of the tube a bit liquidy this isn't an issue the ants don't care, remember you only need to place pea sized drops in a few various places where they roam. Out of the four applicators provided in the box it took 2 1/2 of them and 2 months to wipe out all of the ants. If this review was helpful to you please click that it was. Good luck

I have a sandy soil yard that was infested with all types of ants when we bought this place several summers ago. Carpenter ants, medium sized black ants in huge nests in the ground, teeny brown ants with their ant hills everywhere, red ants, yellow ants, etc. The little brown ants took to the granular protein bait that I sprinkled for them during the months of May and June this year, but the black ants and big Carpenters didn't want the protein, which led me to believe they were probably interested in carbohydrates such as melon or something at the moment, which is where this gel bait comes into play. I used this gel bait, and let me tell you! Three or more huge in-ground nests full of medium size black ants were wiped out overnight after dotting blobs of this gel around their nests, for they gobbled it up. Also, carpenters took the bait at night, and carpenter activity stopped where we needed it to. They were into eating carbohydrates at the moment, they gobbled up this bait, and it worked wonderfully!

The product came quickly and is easy to use. The instructions could be a little clearer or there could be a video posted on Youtube to make how to use it crystal clear. The box it came in was squashed but the tubes inside were fine. However, I had to tape the box together at the bottom to be able to use it to hold the unused tubes.

I found some carpenter ants scouting around and traced them back to a tree in front of the house. I put down some Advance granules that had good success on an infestation at the back of my wooded lot, but these bums were wise to the stuff and did little more than carry it way from the two entrances I found. Impressive, and also annoying. I’d picked up some of this Maxforce for a European hornet problem and had enough left over to offer to the carpenter ants. They enjoyed the honeydew flavor as much as the (now dead) hornets did, and OMG did it work well! Gone was the orderly random workers going up and down the tree, a night after they enjoyed this snack there were hundreds running up and down the tree in pointless patterns with dozens curled up dead on the ground. I put a bit more down, but had to flee the scene of the crime because the dang things were also falling off of the tree and landing on me. Gross. Top marks! One package put a stop to the hornet infestation with enough left to end the pillaging of a tree full of ants.

Did not work. Carpenter ants walked right by the droplets, and then tried Terro traps with gel inside and they are eating it like crazy. This product was a total waste of my money, and it was expensive unlike Terro.