Have used these three different times, and each time has worked like a charm.

The first instance was about five years ago. I noticed some ants in our master bathroom. It was never more than one ant at a time, but there was almost always one in the bathroom. I tried spraying insecticide. This would work for a few days (and you would have dead ants on the floor), but then it would wear off and they came back.

I then tried the ant bait traps from Raid. It was not the exact same product as the Double Control Ant Baits, but it was whatever similar product was offered five years ago.

The directions said it could take a couple of weeks to notice it working and it did. It was difficult watching ants in the house and not squishing them knowing they had to take the poison back to the colony for it to work. In this case it took about 3 weeks, but the ants disappeared after that.

The second case was about 3 months ago. We were getting ready to sell our house and ants suddenly started appearing in the kitchen. This time, it was not one ant at a time. You could frequently find as many as five running around on the floor or countertops at any one time. Remembering the success from last time, I went straight for the Raid Ant Bait. This time it only took about a week for the ants to disappear.

The most recent case was in our new house. About two weeks after we moved in, we had dropped a potato chip on the kitchen floor at dinner and did not pick it up. The next morning there were literally hundreds of the tiny black ants swarming on the potato chip and every other crumb of food under the kitchen table.

I was not sure if the Raid Ant Bait worked on the tiny ants (all my previous experience had been with the larger ants—about 1/4" long), but I gave it a try. I put two of the baits between where the potato chip was and where they were entering the kitchen from under the baseboard.

Once the tiny ants found the bait, they were all over it. This is where being patient became difficult: Leaving one or two ants alone so the bait will work is a little annoying. Watching dozens of ants running around in a corner of your kitchen for two days is VERY annoying…but you have to be patient for the bait to work.

After about three days, the ants vanished. We have a 5 year old, so there are almost always a few crumbs of food on the kitchen floor and I have not seen an ant in about a month now.


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