Home Defence Ant Stop Granules 300 g, Black

I've lived in my property since March '21. In April bombarded with ants trailing across living room floor and outside on patio. I used everything I could throw at them! Managed to stop them coming inside with diatomicous earth powder. Every year was the same until last year when I tried these granules. Game changer. I used the drench method and poured this along areas where I saw the ants and the corners outside my patio doors. I can't recommend them highly enough. These granules kill the nest not just the ants. They have really worked for me. I saw two random ants last week and used the drench once. Not seen any since but I am confident I've rid myself of the nests and the 'flying ant' bombardment in August. Fabulous stuff.

Not great as dry granules, but very effective when used in a water solution, although it doesn't dissolve into water very well, so don't use the rose attachment on your watering can.Amazon wanted me to rate its flavour for some reason. I can't account for that I'm afraid.

In preparation for early retirement, I qualified as a pest controller in 2016, but because the finances worked out ok, I did not need to put this training & qualification into practice. The benefit I have, is that I can buy professional only pest control chemicals, but for ants, I just use over the counter stuff..but I am very selective about what I use. My home is South facing and by mid-Spring, I get ants coming in the house, which I deal with very effectively with a professional bait station, which kills off a fair few nests, but there is always further nest activity outside, which I had been spraying with a pyrethroid spray. This year, my spray was not totally effective, so I tried this product, which certainly was effective. There are options for using this, either putting down the crystals as they are, which I found to be partially effective, or making a solution and pouring it on the nest. Because the crystals by themselves had not worked, I ended up with a half way approach, as I ended up having to put water on the Crystals to make a solution, which worked very well. I will certainly be keeping this product in the garage for years to come.When choosing a pest control chemical, I do not go by the brand name, I look at the active ingriedient to see if I want that in your home/garden and to determine if it will be effective (some brand names change their active ingriedients occasionally in response to tighter regulations). It is worth looking up the active ingriedient on this product...spinosad, as it is from the bacteria Saccharopolyspora spinosa and in some respects, is regarded as "natural" by some nations, who allow its use in organic farming. It has a low toxicity for mammals, but not so for some insects, so do not use near bees & always read (& re-read) the label from each packet. As far as pest control chemicals go, this is one I do not mind using in my garden, especially as it also effective against the target pest species.

I'm buying this every year. It's great. No mess in the garden, need only little to kill ants

Ordered the granules which were meant to be with a lid with holes etc for sprinkling.Arrived in a standard lidded container (like gravy packs) and the lid had come off. Fortunately the granules were in the packaging and I was able to pour them back.Hopefully will work.Review may sound picky but in house with kids and pets I wouldn’t want the granules spill out everywhere.

My lawn was plagued with nests of red ants. I tried specific nematodes but the ants quickly returned. I used these granules by pouring them into a small hole that I made into the centre of the ants - no sign of the ants the next day. I repeated the granule use in about 20 sites - effective in them all.

I usually get a plague of ants every year in the room where the boiler is, the winged ones, tried boiling water and the powder ant killer but this is messy as the powder never goes exactly where you want it to so I bought this.So far it seems to be working and a help, gave it four stars as haven't done a long term test on the product.Update, seems to be helping a lot.

I have had ants in my lawn and under paving for years. Other ant killers have only temporarily reduced them and, for some reason, this year they are much worse. Home Defence Ant Stop is different. It kills the queen ants which kills the nests. However, it can take a number of applications to get rid of them altogether as there are so many queen ants to reach.I am really pleased with the results and have recommended it to friends.