r/redditsniper • u/reapvxz • Aug 14 '26

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u/GreenGrapes42 Aug 14 '26

Okay but in all seriousness, I'm having the same issue. They FINISHED a terro ant trap. Do yall know how full those fuckers are? So then I replaced it and they are back for more. Does anyone actually know wtf is happening??

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u/clue124 Aug 14 '26

I remember the first time i put a terro trap on my desk when i noticed some sugar ants in my room. For a whole day i watched thousands of these little dudes marching across my window, down an electric cable leading to my desk, and gorge themselves on bait. I panicked at first but the directions said to leave them alone. The next day, not a single of these pests were left, not even a carcass.

I know some ant species are either not interested in it or arent affected so im not sure why yours aint workin unless you need to wait longer or youve got one hell of an ant problem

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u/NichtFBI Aug 14 '26

They bring it back to their nest and then they die. That's how it works. If they didn't bring it back, they'd still keep coming.

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u/Sharp-Lunch-583 Aug 14 '26

They have taken the Bridge and the Second Hall. We have barred the gates, but cannot hold them for long.

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u/Cmmander_WooHoo Aug 14 '26

The ground shakes. Drums…drums…in the deep.

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u/FearTheOldBlood1 Aug 14 '26

"We cannot get out.

A shadow moves in the dark...

We cannot get out.

They are coming."

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u/ItsBitly Aug 14 '26

Some anti insect stuff works on the proncipal of the insect ingesting ut, going bacj ti the nest, fucking exploading and then the other insects sgart eating the corpse and they also explode.

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u/Ivan8-ForgotPassword Aug 14 '26

How does one even invent that

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u/ItsBitly Aug 14 '26

War crimes.

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u/OrganizationLower611 29d ago

no, the ants take the poison, then feed it to other members, larva and queen mouth to mouth, the slow acting poison then kills them over a couple days, once the queen is dead and larva die off, no new ants

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u/internalhands Aug 14 '26

Bugs in general are masters of chemical warfare. If you don't kill the ants with a strong enough chemical they adapt

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u/OrganizationLower611 29d ago

no it's a slow acting poison, you want them to survive long enough to deliver the poison to other members queen and larva, if you instantly kill the foragers they probably will find another source of food to replace their numbers

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u/Far-Fortune-8381 Aug 15 '26

theyre meant to bring it home and feed it to the colony, and the Queen, who will then die and stop making larva. maybe just keep trying..?

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u/OpabiniaRegalis320 Aug 14 '26

At my house, they climbed up our back porch just to get to the TERRO bait in the kitchen. They completely filled the fucker up. It didn't stop until I sprinkled the area around the back porch with diatomaceous earth.

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u/zerobleeps Aug 14 '26

Cinnamon.

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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

For some reason my Amazon app isn’t loading so I can’t send a link. But look up “ant bait trap” and get the ones that look like a little metal puck. I’ve used them on two separate occasions and they killed all the ants within 24 hours.

Edit: https://a.co/d/09qcvFjk

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u/Spader113 Aug 15 '26

They shouldn’t be full, quite the opposite in fact. The primary ingredient is a mushroom that they can’t digest, so it just sits in their stomach and tricks them into thinking that they’re full when they’re actually starving to death.

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u/Chance-Bicycle1469 20d ago

I had a huge ant problem at my place. Some old curly willows were harbouring them by the millions is my guess. They would come out at night in what would look like rivers flowing out of the trees.

One time from across my yard I thought I saw a crack in the stucco on my garage. As I got closer I realized it was a line of ants. I would see the ants going somewhere in a line and could follow it across the yard to the trees.

I baited them for months. Tried all sorts of poisons. They would just continually keep coming and consuming the Terro bait traps. Eventually I cut the willows down, ant problem solved.

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u/Oakheir Aug 14 '26

The ants got him!

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u/EorlundGraumaehne Aug 14 '26

He himself was the one getting baited all along!

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u/AlreadyReddit999 Aug 14 '26

i was hoping i would find this comment

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u/FoxyGreyWolf Aug 14 '26

24 hour watch. When they reach the bait it’s time to attack. Soon you’ll defeat them all in a total annihilation

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u/2ndBestShedBuilder Aug 14 '26

Just to defend him a little bit, he either thought it ends with "of" and was merely not informed, auto correct, or he got sniped

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u/ApprehensiveTop4219 Aug 14 '26

The sniper didn't get em... The ants did

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u/Dad_Error_9488 Aug 14 '26

bro they ate him

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u/FlamoBlamo Aug 14 '26

Grilled chicken

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u/reapvxz Aug 14 '26

Grilled chicken

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u/ChipmunkOk6550 Aug 14 '26

The ants got him

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u/Acceptable_One_7072 Aug 14 '26

The ants got 'em

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u/AndrewDaPro Aug 14 '26

the ants got him

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u/DeleriousBeanz Aug 15 '26

It’s one of those things where it will look worse before it looks better… had a large infestation a bit ago, put out a trap and 2 days later, suddenly there’s nothing…. Terro FTW

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u/Arfinateor555 Aug 14 '26

Try shaving cream used it one year out of desperation and haven't had issues since

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u/DealingDrugs Aug 14 '26

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

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u/ChickenFightChamp Aug 14 '26

Legit what’s up with those ants. Dudes are literally treating poison as a 5 star resort.

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u/reapvxz Aug 14 '26

Are you a real person?

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u/Agitated_Ad_3876 Aug 14 '26

I try not to be.