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I have been very diligent about keeping my bird room free of moths but despite all the precautions it seems like they have arrived. I freeze all of the seed I buy for a couple of days before using it and I clean all new toys. Does anyone know of a safe way to get rid of them? I have been killing the ones that I see but for everyone I kill it seems like 5 more show up.

Glue traps worked beautifully for me, and smushing all I could find. I found that most remained asleep on the wall long enough after I turned the lights on each morning for me to kill a good many then. Every morning I made the rounds of the room they'd infested, first behind doors and other especially dark places and then all the other walls. Once they disappeared, I've never had a recurrence in a dozen years. I might see a stray single maybe once a year, but I kill it and go another year moth free Hope it works as well for you.

If you have been freezing your seed then most likely you have them breeding in the room somewhere. I had loads of moths and couldnt find the source. One day I took the seed catchers off the cage & they were breeding in a hidden crevice where the pellets fell behind the seed catchers. You might want to transfer your food to smaller containers and keep them in the freezer until needed.You have to get any stray food that falls --around & under rugs under cages,even down your hot air registers.Those birds can fling far & wide.----Yogi

I used to sit in the dark reading silly fan fiction stories on my computer, the moths would come to the screen. I could usually catch about 5 an hour.

There are some pheremone glass traps being sold now on Drs Foster and Smith. I don't know how well they work though.

I just had a moth attack too - they came in on mixed nuts. Never buy bin nuts. They are in the kitchen and bird room too. They have green larva that makes webs and we even had to throw out all new bags of nuts, rice, legumes, etc. as they make microscopic holes in any bag they want into and contaminate it. I've never seen anything like it. My husband and I emptied all the cabinets, disinfected them (threw out a lot of contaminated food), scrubbed the cracks with a tooth brush, vacuumed up larva on the walls and ceilings and the moths too. It was an all day job. Once they get in they are hard as heck to get rid of!
So far, we've only seen a moth here and there....we vacuum it up instantly. But I've heard if any moths or larva survive, you just get reinfested? I don't think I could take this again. And for the feramone traps to work, you have to know exactly what species of moth you have I was told. So far we're hoping we got them all........and we freeze all the bird food now until use. This has been an awful infestation. If it comes back again, I'm going to capture a moth and larva and take it to the bug guy to find out exactly what it is and then order the traps - one for each room.
I have one friend who became so disgusted with the whole thing, she packed up her flock and moved out to her sisters house, left those canned insecticidal spray bombs going off as she closed the door behind her, came back 3 days later and it killed the moths, the ants, cockroaches, flies and mosquitos she had. She aired out the house all day and then brought the birds back and had no problems. I'd be kind of scared for my flock doing that, seems like that stuff coats everything when I used it years ago (pre-birds). I didn't ask her if she washed the cages down really well before putting the birds back into them.

99% of the time they are a pantry moth. Most stores will sell pantry moth traps for under $10 and they are worth it. After my infestation I started to store all our dry goods in sealed canisters, that way if some found their way in, I'm not having to replace the food.