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Corn Snake-safe moth treatment?

bitsy

bitsy

Owned by Corns since 1991
My flat has been plagued with moths since about this time last year - they're driving me nuts. I must kill half a dozen a day.

My snakes are kept in my lounge. I've been spraying the bedrooms and bathroom (at the other end of the flat) with a moth killer, but it's marked as highly toxic to aquatic life so it can't come anywhere near the snakes.

Can anyone suggest a treatment or remedy to discourage moths, which would be safe to use around the snakes? All of the chemicals that I've looked at seem moth-specific - even standard insect sprays won't seem to work.
 
Many thanks for the suggestion. I've had a quick look at the indoors-type lamps but they don't seem to get very good reviews on places like Amazon.

Does anyone have a personal recommendation for a good one I could get hold of in the UK? It'd certainly be helpful to have a non-chemical solution and the way the lounge is laid out, I can easily place it so the UV light isn't directly visible from the vivs.
 
I've always used the fly tape to help with the smaller flies that happen to get in. I'm sure if you hang one by a light source, it would definitely attract them at night. Some people just aren't too fond of fly tape hanging in their homes.
 
I'll look into fly paper but as they manage to avoid the cobwebs I have around the place in high corners, I don't hold out much hope.

I was rather thinking water might encourage them as well as drown a few. I know they like water though - I have to haul them out of the snakes' drinking water often enough!
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If they are clothes moths, try sprinkling diatomaceous earth around the corners of the rooms, and spray contact crawling insect killer on lampshades. When my old bedroom carpet was infested I sprayed a conical material shade and the results were brilliant. The light attracted the moths, the insecticide killled them and they dropped into the shade!
 
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