Combat Ant-Rid Liquid Questions & Answers

No idea Debbie. And why PR has referred this question to my I don't know. BUT I had a bad ant problem a few drops of the 'solution' in strategic places did the job brilliantly. I bought a 2 pack, small bottles/plastic, probably will never use it all. I had a few ants out the front the other day, near the front door, I put down maybe 2 drops in 4 places and they were gone in less than an hour or even less.

Blunt answer….. the Nanny state doesn’t think we are responsible enough to handle the chemicals that once were contained in it. Now they just water down honey and hope the ant will eat themselves to death.

Totally agree, except in my case the ants ate it then came back for more, bringing their friends with them!

witchiepoo - the instructions say that initially ant activity may increase yet this will ease as the workers take it back to the nest and pass it on. I followed the instructions to the letter and it worked like a charm. They are all gone except for the ones that are lying dead in the antrid. Ant nests may vary in size and quantity, meaning you could have more than one nest in your yard or walls. So I would keep putting the antrid out in multiple spots on their track until they are all gone.

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Bunnings only seemed to be stocking 2 x 50ml bottle packs. Date of Manufacture January 2020....? There is no Out of Date stamped on the bottles. I do like the product but have not noticed Out of Date.

The advice in case of poisoning - as written on the Ant-Rid bottle is to telephone the "Poisons Information Centre". Australia 131 126. Basic Stuff.

It could, but it will probably soak in, depending on the texture of the cement. Put down a strip of non-porous adhesive tape or metal(like a jam bottle lid)first, then apply the product on top.

I'm a 1st time user and so far it has worked really well. I applied it at night as there is generally less movement around the house - not sure if that is of any help.

As I stated in my review, the quality of the product has deteriorated every time I purchased one. This is my third bottle.

Just a bad batch.

Hard to say, we placed some drops in an old lid, I then poured in some left over coffee. The sugar in the coffee attracted them and they drank the poison with the liquid. They were gone in about 12 hours. Without the sweet liquid they didn't seem interested in the bait.

Bett - Do yourself a favour, go find Talon Gel and try that.. Personal experience recently with Antrid especially the baits is it was hopeless and nothing like it once was. Same experience as you, they came and then go and you think great, then they back again and often totally ignore the baits.. we persisited for about 3 weeks and gave it up with Antrid..

Use a bit of Talon Gel and in less than a day no more ants and not seen them there since. You do this and watch the 'MASSIVE' invasion of ants and they will not go past the gel which you can put anywhere, vertical, Horizontal even upside down on a ceiling if need too.

Had one other invasion in lounge room, same deal put out a couple 1cm long string of Talon Gel, within a day the ants gone never seen them back.. Talon is dearer (about $8 a tube) but absolutely worth it and worked for us 100% and at the moment outside in our region it is a massive invasion of ants absolutely everywhere, have not bothered with them outside as there are billions and billions of them, but they do not come into house anymore... Still have the tube we opened in storage for just in case, not needed so far for months.. Good luck...

Thank you for your information will give a try

Where do you buy Talon Gel from?? never heard of it, what's Talon for?

I got the talon gel, 2 bottles of ant rid gel and the baits and my gosh. Maybe the ants are wrong. Maybe they aren’t ants lol I’ve never seen brown ants before. The black ants definitely eat ant rid. These little fkrs only want cat food and I swear they are climbing over each other to get through the moat around the bowls. Or they are climbing up the walls onto the ceiling and dropping into the food bowls to get past the water lol

I’m losing the ant battle

Well after some ant trouble and finding the borax mixture didnt work here and at first the antrid did not work....I finally have a solution, partly due to help from others and partly my experiments. I went back to antrid, which the ants would not go near before. There seems to be a trick to it someone pointed out....USE ONLY ONE DROP of antrid in any one spot......you can put one drop, in as many places as you want, but only one drop....and they seem to go for it.....but use a larger circle of it and no, they wont eat it. The second thing is, I had to drop a few grains of sugar into the art rid and around it.....not too much because we want to be killing them, not giving them dessert. lol. After trying this, it seems to work well. Good luck.

I believe the best way to help you out would be to place in various locations the dry packs in that room - it should increase the ants for some time but after some time you should notice the ants dwindling in numbers as they should be killing thierselfs and thier queen. - thus destroying the whole colony

Ps. I'm not from ant rid but I hope this helps

As stated on the package it says to wipe away when a 'skin' forms best to clean before that happens I know in your case it has dried up so get a disposable cloth wet it and cover the area affected leave it there for some time and this should 'rehydrate' it to clean away

Hope this helps!

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There is no best before date or any use by date stated on the packaging

Only a manufactured date

I believe they can damage the wires, I had the same problem there were a lot of dead ants in the plughole cavity I had an electrician here one day and he replaced the outlet. I think they can corrode the wiring.

Thankyou, I will have it checked. They are still happily endulging on the golden nectar, although many have drowned!!

Leptobrama.....thankyou for your valuable contribution.

Also,Leptobrama you should of realised the wrong key was pressed, instead of spellchecking put some useful feedback into the review you nerd.

Also,Leptobrama you should of realised the wrong key was pressed, instead of spellchecking put some useful feedback into the review you nerd.

Probably has I don't really know, I only bought it this year so expect it would not be out of date

If you can't find an expiry date then it doesn't have one. Der.

I phoned the company that makes it and they said 2 years is the shelf life. 3 jan 2020

I only bought mine a couple of months ago and the ants think it is a smorgasbord keep coming back for me. The one I used many years ago worked much better.

If you can't find an expiry date then it doesn't have one. Der.

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Ingestion: If swallowed, may cause gastrointestinal irritation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea

and abdominal pain.

Please make sure you DO NOT INDUCE vomiting

AND contact your poisons contact that is in your area/country

Depends how big the ant problem is. When I lived in suburbia it used to take only one to two days. Now I live on a farm in the country there are many, many more ants. I don't like to put a lot out at once and not long after I put it out it is surrounded by ants and I put out some more little spots of liquid until all the ants form circles around the spots and as it starts disappearing I keep adding more. New ants keep coming but the amount of ants gradually decreases and it can take anywhere from two days to about 8 days depending on how many ants are in the nest. My daughter now lives in Sydney and she told me she had a problem with ants and had used a few products and had not been able to get rid of them and I told her to get some and use it and she was amazed at how well it worked - got rid of them straight away. My husband got the plastic baits by mistake one time though instead of the liquid and it did not work and you can't see the bait inside the plastic so you have no idea if there is any left. I would never get those again .

Depends on the size of the nest & the species.

At my house after about 24hrs the numbers of ants feeding starts to reduce. I stopped putting fresh bait out and cleaned up the area about 48 hours after id first put the bait out. Then sealed the crack at the skirting board where they'd been entering the house. I haven't had a reoccurrence.

Cats don't need to use it. They don't care about ants.

Please contact your local pet care place for a check up if you suspect the cat has swallowed any if The cat has soon after the cat may experience gastrointestinal irritation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea

and abdominal pain.

Yeah... Not nice in any way