Looking to gather more data on indoor ant traps... we had a home invasion about 2 wks ago. Some bloody battles were fought w/ hundreds of bodies
sometimes as late as 2AM ...weapon was mostly 409 on paper towels. After the 3rd day or so, we got a box of Raid traps for the home. They are advertised as better because they have multiple entry points and the entriy points are at floor level. For the first 2 days, the invading armies went everywhere except into the traps. I called the manufacturer and asked if their marketing was better than their traps. They told me people keep buying them so they must work, that I should wait about 10 days for results, and that the ants might go in when I wasn't looking. We continued the battle w/ our first and only weapon but left the Raid traps in place. A week or so later and the invading army is mostly gone.
I thought at first that the Raid traps must finally have taken hold as the manufacturer claimed. I then stocked up on a 2:1 sale at the local hardware store ....different brand though. When I opened them up, the design was different...only a single entry point and not at floor level. Also the new ones were not in a sealed plastic envelope like the Raid and since the intent is to not use them until the 3 mo. life of the Raid is past, I don't know if the new ones will lose their potency (or maybe already have lost their potency on the shelf).
Anyone have any real world experience with different brands of these things? Did they work?
How about similar things for outside in the yard?
sometimes as late as 2AM ...weapon was mostly 409 on paper towels. After the 3rd day or so, we got a box of Raid traps for the home. They are advertised as better because they have multiple entry points and the entriy points are at floor level. For the first 2 days, the invading armies went everywhere except into the traps. I called the manufacturer and asked if their marketing was better than their traps. They told me people keep buying them so they must work, that I should wait about 10 days for results, and that the ants might go in when I wasn't looking. We continued the battle w/ our first and only weapon but left the Raid traps in place. A week or so later and the invading army is mostly gone.
I thought at first that the Raid traps must finally have taken hold as the manufacturer claimed. I then stocked up on a 2:1 sale at the local hardware store ....different brand though. When I opened them up, the design was different...only a single entry point and not at floor level. Also the new ones were not in a sealed plastic envelope like the Raid and since the intent is to not use them until the 3 mo. life of the Raid is past, I don't know if the new ones will lose their potency (or maybe already have lost their potency on the shelf).
Anyone have any real world experience with different brands of these things? Did they work?
How about similar things for outside in the yard?