Combat Ant Killing Gel 27grams
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Combat Ant Killing Gel 27grams
Customer Review: Same active ingredient!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
***** Update 10/24/10 *****
After using this for a couple of years I've found something new and better. Hot Shot Ultra Clear Roach & Ant Gel.
Search Amazon for - Hot Shot Ultra Clear Roach & Ant Gel and read my review.
Last year we had a real bad ant problem. I put out different bait and traps, all to no avail! So I called a professional exterminator, he came out and I watched carefully as he applied some stuff with what looked like a syringe. I got a glimpse of the product name and as soon as he left I jumped on the net to look it up the product and ordered some. Now the Combat product that ths review is about has the exact same active ingredient, in the exact same strength. I paid $[...] plus shipping. I got a lot more than comes in the Combat package, but if I had it to do again I'd buy the smaller amount - it just doesn't take a lot.
It works GREAT. It calls itself a gel, but it is very thin almost the consistency of a syrup. It will drip when you are applying it if you aren`t careful. I opened my applicator by taking a very small nail (the small one that came with a picture hanging thingy) holding it with a pair of pliers and heating it up over a stove. Then taking the hot nail a giving it a quick spray of Pam and push it into the tip of the applicator. This gave me a much smaller hole in the tip than cutting of the tip. Save the nail and use it to stop up the tip up when you are done applying the gel.
When you have ants follow the line of ants to find the entry point, this is where you apply the gel. I push the tip up to the crevice or small hole where they are coming from and push in some gel carefully. DO NOT SPRAY ANT KILLER AROUND IT!!! Now it takes a little patience, just walk away. The ants that are inside the wall stop at the gel and feed, the ants on the inside the house will work their way back to the crevice and start to feed too. I'd check back the next day, if I found ants again I'd give it another small shot of gel. We had several more infestations in different parts of the house over the next few days (it seemed that they had gotten into the attic and found different entry points). But in a week or so all traces of ants were gone. This year (as I still have plenty of gel left) whenever we see a line of ants anywhere outside the house I give it a blob of gel and check back in a day or two and we haven't had any get into the house yet - Yeaaa!!!
We haven't had a problem with our cats. In the house you end up pushing the gel in out of the way spaces where the cats can't get to, outside it's a bit more tricky, but with a little creativity I can find a crack or spot that the ants are by but the cats can't get to.
Hope this helps.
I highly recommend this product.
Customer Review: Contains the insecticide proven most effective
Summary: 5 Stars
The reason I titled this review as I did is because an ant control "product" isn't what works per se, it's the insecticide it contains, followed by whether the ants will eat the bait or just walk through it. I spent a great deal of time researching, and according to university studies, fipronil is the most effective ingredient because it spreads easily through the colony and yet its toxicity is sufficiently delayed that the ants don't die before they can pass it on. As a result 95% eradication of the colony within 3 days is typical.
That's what the research says compared to other ingredients, and it worked just as well for me on every occasion that I've had to use it. If I come home to discover an ant invasion, I remove competing sources of food (read: clean better and take the trash out) find where the ants seem to be entering the house, and apply the gel (wear a rubber glove; it's hard not to get some on your skin). The sight of ants lining up around the bait like little pigs at a trough is quite gratifying. They eat their fill, leave, and never come back. It may take 3 days to completely wipe out the colony, but every time I've used it the ants eat, leave after a few hours, and never return.
Now, perhaps I've been fortunate in that they have always eaten the gel. Fipronil should work if you just contrive to have them walk through the gel, but obviously if they eat and share with their buddies it's a guaranteed home run. However, there are sweet ants and protein ants, and it's likely some species may not take a given bait no matter what the product is. In that case you could mix the gel with, say, peanut butter for grease/protein ants. If they don't eat the gel, you obviously need to find out what food they like. The benefit of a gel product like this is that you can mix it with anything. There are some other products like Maxforce FC that also use fipronil, but again the takeway is: 1) use a fipronil-based product, and 2) find a way to get them to eat it if they don't eat the gel itself. Do that and the battle will be won very quickly, and you can bask in the triumph of superior intelligence and the scientific method; never again will the legions of tiny invaders cause undue consternation.
Customer Review: 5 stars - very effective
Summary: 5 Stars
April, 2011. Thank you to Amazon and to all of the reviewers. We had ants, mostly in the kitchen along one wall, and in the powder room. We had a pest control guy last year; he charged about $90. When the ants came back this year we did research (mostly on Amazon) on DIY solutions.
We ordered the Combat product from Amazon, and when it arrived we put small globs of it, spaced out on the floor. We put some on masking tape and some directly on the ceramic tile. Within a few hours there were many, many ants surrounding the globs of gel. (It was disgusting but we knew to let them do their thing.) By the next day, there were fewer ants, and within 2 days, no sign of any live ants, but several dead ones. It's been a couple of weeks now. This seems to have worked much better than the stuff the pest control guy used last year.
The idea of the Combat product, as other reviewers have written, is that it doesn't kill right away - the ants carry it back to the nest for others to eat, so it kills more ants.
Some other reviewers wrote that, if "your" ants don't go for this product, try placing the gel on some peanut butter, or some honey. You could put the peanut butter or honey on strips of masking tape, then place some of the gel on that. In our case, "our" ants went for the gel as it is, but if that doesn't work for you, try adding the gel to peanut butter or honey.
It seems that battling ants and putting down the gel is something that has to be done periodically - it's a process. I just ordered more from Amazon. It's a heck of a lot cheaper than the pest control guy!
Good luck - we're happy with this stuff so far.
Customer Review: Combat Ant Killing Gel with FIPRONIL -- it is a WINNER!
Summary: 5 Stars
This has been the most effective ant eliminator I've ever tried. We had these black ants invading our high rise condo unit. Sprays and other baits failed to foil them. They kept marching in and getting into everything.
We bought this syringe tube of Combat Ant Killing Gel containing Fipronil as the active ingredient (DO NOT BUY ANYTHING BUT A PRODUCT CONTAINING FIPRONIL). It took some getting used to how much pressure to apply to the syringe to dispense the ant gel. My first attempts resulted in large glops. Over a couple of days I got the hang of it. The best way is to create a feeder area with a couple of dozen dots so that ants can feed in large packs before taking them back to the nest. Fipronil is at worst a slow acting nerve poison that allows ants to feed, then harbor them back to the colony where it can be shared among other colony members. As we were more than 20 floors high perhaps it took 5 days to stop the ants instead of a day or two (long trip back to the nest). Voila! The ants stopped coming and it has been months since the invasion. I have only used but one tenth of the tube so this effective ant treatment program will last me years!
I tried this at a friend's home where they had a large infestation. So we used a lot more product, enough for hundreds to swarm and feed. Two days later the ants were gone! I'm impressed.
Remember: only Combat products with Fipronil work this good.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Customer Review: Product Works Great - CAREFUL Since Shipping &Handling Pricing is Predatory
Summary: 5 Stars
Combat Ant Kill Gel is a great product as long as you use it with care. The gel needs care in application so that it does not come into contact with surfaces that can be penetrated by the gel (staining) and so that it is out of reach of children and pets. You can always apply it into cracks, on pieces of small scrap paper or even on the back of masking tape to be removed at a later date.
Place the gel near cracks where ants are located and along ant trails. The ants can take up to 24 hours to find the gel and, once they do, they will swarm to eat as much as they can. The poison is then brought back to the ant colony and shared - killing the source of your ant troubles. (Much better than the never ending cycle of spot killing like using Raid.)
ISSUE: Amazon currently sells this product through Polsteins Home & Beyond, a non-Amazon Prime seller. The cost of the product through them is currently $4.99 (list price) and Polsteins Home & Beyond ships it for $6.11. Yes, that is a 100% mark-up for the original product price followed by shipping the product for another 122% more. Not criminal...just very, very unethical.
I would highly recommend avoiding buying this product through Polsteins Home & Beyond due to this type of predatory pricing behavior. You can find companies that have a good shipping policy and competitive prices through a simple "Combat Ant Kill Gel" search on the web.