📋 Key Facts
🎯 Primary Uses
Indoxacarb is used almost exclusively as a gel bait for cockroaches and ants. Advion Cockroach Gel is the flagship product — widely considered the most effective cockroach bait available for German cockroach control. Advion Ant Gel contains the same AI. The proinsecticide mechanism provides inherent selectivity not seen with other insecticide classes.
🛡️ Safety Summary
Among the safest insecticides for mammals due to the proinsecticide mechanism — mammals lack the enzyme that activates indoxacarb. Very low acute and chronic toxicity in mammalian studies. Gel bait application minimizes exposure risk further — tiny amounts applied in cracks and voids.
🔬 Resistance Status
Resistance to indoxacarb is less common than to fipronil baits in cockroach populations — possibly due to the proinsecticide activation step creating additional resistance barriers. Currently considered the most resistance-resistant gel bait active ingredient. Rotate with fipronil and hydramethylnon baits to maintain efficacy.
