CombatMax 2 in 1 Ant Bait Station, 4 Count

Before buying this trap, we tried indoor bug spray, which worked for a couple of days, but then the ants would be back in our kitchen. We got this Combat trap and, within a few hours, the ants were slowly streaming into it. After 24 hours, the ant stream was noticeably less. After 48 hours, we didn't see any ants near it, or anywhere else in our kitchen. It has now been 5 days, and the ants have not returned. The trap is still there, just in case. I can honestly say the Combat trap was a complete success, in our case. My wife was so happy with this product that she told me to write this review.Update (6/4/25): It has now been 17 days since we set the Combat trap and the ants have not returned. I'm very confident the queen has been killed. Definitely recommend this trap.

There was a full on invasion happening at our home! These little fricking ants were coming from everywhere and nowhere! We sprayed them inside and outside, we smashed them, we eliminated every possible food source, and we tried other popular baits and still they came in droves! Set these bait stations up and within hours they died and the seemingly endless marching army of ants disappeared!

In my experience they worked great. I had tried some other ant baits and the ants didn't seem interested so I ordered the combat baits. The ants were going in and taking the bait within some days the ants were dropping off and not seeing as many, they are now gone. If I need to control ants in the house I will use combat again.

I purchased this to see if it could get rid of some pesky sugar ants that invade my bathroom periodically when we get heavy rains for a weeks or so. I usually use sugar and boric acid dissolved in warm water which works but usually takes upward of two weeks. I've tried Terro baits which work for a short period to attract ants but then they sidestep the baits and never seem to kill the entire colony. After placing several of these along the ant trails, they attracted lots of ants within the first two days. After that, the ants would come and gather in small groups along the trails and just sit there. After about a week and a 1/2, I disturbed the groups and they moved but not in their usual way. I ended up squishing them and wiping the trials. After that, I saw a few ants walking but it dwindled down to none. All in all about 2 weeks. They haven't returned. I would say this product worked great.Pros:1. Works well.2. The container is easy to handle without getting poison on your hands.Cons:1. You have to break a tab off to expose the poison to the ants. If you don't press it just right, it won't break cleanly.2. The gel inside dries up in about two weeks (which was OK since the ants were almost dead by then) but if you need to have it longer you may have issues.3. You can't find it in stores so you have to order online.I would purchase gain.

Works great know that it’s a bait so at first ants will flock to it, but that means it’s doing his job and very soon will help. Take care of your problem. It’s in a syringe type dispenser. You just squeeze it and whatever cracks those ants are coming out of.

Unfortunately, my experience with this product was NOT one of success. For over 30 years, I have used an environmentally responsible method of a water, sugar, and powdered borax soap solution, and it has never failed to quickly eliminate an ant problem. As suggested by a friend, I purchased this 4 bait station product and deployed all four stations.After activating each station, the entry point of each was jagged, and definitely not a welcome pass through for the ants, but they are industrious, so I waited, only to observe that over numerous days, few if any actually entered the station, thereby rendering the intended outcome totally ineffective. I next tried to move some of the bait closer to the entry point, but no luck with that. Ultimately, I decided to open up the station, remove the bait and present that to be consumed by the ants, but upon getting the bait waifer, (disc) out of the trap, I discovered that it was hard as a rock. There was nothing moist at all about it.In order to get it into any possible form that might be consumed or carried back to a nest, I had to cover the disc with a paper towel and repeatedly pound it with a hammer to reduce it to a form that might be consumed or transported. My conclusion is that I was sold an old product, with dried out bait stations's that would never have had any chance of being effective.After dismantling the stations in a final attempt to render them effective, I would not expect to be able to return them. Also, there is no dating on the box that would indicate when the product, or even this particular run of the product, was manufactured, or an expiration date of its efficacy. While I did read reviews of success with this product, mine could not be one of them.

Three of the bait stations broke off in the wrong place, rendering them unusable. Please find a better way to activate these stations because I can only use one of them. Will have to find a different brand.Update: I’m revising my original review from one star to three stars. While three of them broke in the wrong place as mentioned above, the one that broke correctly worked really well. So I decided to move the one bait station around the house to take care of all the ant colonies. Bottom line, it works, but COMBAT: please fix your bait stations so they can all be used. For customers like me, maybe it would be best to buy Fipronil and use empty bait stations that you fill yourself.NOTE: These work well for sugar ants. They may not work for all types of ants.

These ant traps really work. I bought some RAID versions, and the ants went right past them. Put the COMBAT traps down and within minutes, the ants were in them. After two days, no more ants. Get some before the EPA finds out how well they work and bans them.