23-04-2025
The only kind of ant killer I'll buy is on sale for spring — 18 traps are just $16
Spring brings any number of lovely seasonal gifts, like daffodils. Budding trees. Warm, fresh breezes. That glowing ball that's suddenly back in the sky (what's it called again?). But one of the surest signs falls squarely in the "oh, you shouldn't have" category: bugs. Every April, without fail, I notice tiny ants darting around my kitchen counters. And every April, without fail, I slaughter them mercilessly with Terro Ant Killer Bait Stations. Right now, you can get 18 of these all-too-handy helpers for $16, down from $22.
At $16 for 18 bait stations, you aren't even paying a buck apiece for these things — and trust me, they're worth their weight in thousands of tiny ant corpses. (Er, gold. Yeah.) And aside from one quick dip to $14, this is as low as the price has gone in the past year, according to our trackers.
Unexpected ant parades happen to the best of us. This year, I spotted my first tiny visitors the day after Easter, thanks to a slow-cooker insert I'd left in the sink to soak. I was trying to soften up some burned-on mac and cheese, but the ants took that as a belated dinner invitation.
Terro baits are filled with a sweet Borax solution that I liken to an ant Big Mac — they've gotta know it's bad for them, but they're powerless to resist. Plop down a few stations where you see the most action, cut off the plastic tips and wait. The ants will go from chaotically scurrying around your house to zombies that march to and from the bait. Talk about special sauce! (Just make sure the area is clean — you want 'em attracted to the bait and only the bait!) Some of the more gluttonous ants may meet their maker inside the bait stations, captured by the sticky goo. But most will make it out and take their prize back to the colony, where they'll die — but not before poisoning all their little friends. Positively Shakespearean, right? Mwuhahaha.
This process rarely takes more than a few days, and it saves you from resorting to imprecise sprays or expensive pro-grade chemicals you may not want around the house, especially if you have kids or pets.
More than 101,000 ant annihilators sing the praises of Terro bait stations in enthusiastic five-star reviews.
"We have ants year-round," said this harried homeowner. "In the kitchen, in the living room, in the bathroom. We live in the woods... Every day, I sprayed cleaner on the countertops to kill them or just squash them. It was out of control, especially now that it's spring and the weather is warming up. I was at my wits' end. Nightmare horror movie moments. So, after reading all these reviews, I thought I'd give it a try. I set out the baits near my kitchen sink, stove, microwave, under the sink. The first night, nothing. The second day, I noticed they were inside the traps and obsessed with them. Third day, I see maybe two ants. I used to wake up to hundreds of ants all over the kitchen."
"What was amazing to me was after I put the trap down and watched these ants go to it, it was shocking to see them run right back out of the corner of the windowsill," said one intrepid bug battler. "I just watched for a few minutes to see them either get trapped inside the trap or grab some of the food in the trap and run back outside or wherever they came from. And by the end of the day, they were gone."
"We had such a bad ant infestation in our ground-floor apartment and it was terrifying and getting worse by the day!" wrote this earnest entomophobe. "I was pregnant and we have pets and I didn't want to have the maintenance spray everywhere. Also, I don't think spraying fully does the trick as I've read the ants need to bring the bait back to their lair. These ant traps were the most 'natural' I could find and OMG they worked so well! ... I truly thought there was no hope. But these wiped them out in like one weekend! I waited a month or so to write the review to see if they'd come back, but the only sign of them now is in my nightmares!"
"The majority of my ant problem disappeared within three days," said this fan. "The only annoying thing I had to deal with was my cat liked to bat the trap around, so I had to strategically place them under things he could not reach or put heavy objects in front of them." (I also have cats and they mostly ignore these baits, but good tip for pet parents!)
"Some of the contents will seep out a little ... if you are putting on hardwood floors or marble, PLEASE put down something to protect the area first," cautioned a wise buyer. "Tear a page out of a notebook or use a sheet of printer paper to put the bait on. The results are excellent, and the price is absolutely affordable."
Don't want to stare at bait stations? Terro's got you covered there too.
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The reviews quoted above reflect the most recent versions at the time of publication.
