Keeping spiders off CCTV cameras
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I installed CCTV cameras at home recently. Word must have got round to the local spider population as the little posers are always trying to out do each other with who can obscure the most with their webs. So during the night all they can see is an extreme close up of a spider web.
Other than getting up there and physically cleaning the camera ever few hours can anyone recommend some way of keeping them off please?
I've found this www.spiderex.co.uk which says it will do the job but has anyone used it?
Other than getting up there and physically cleaning the camera ever few hours can anyone recommend some way of keeping them off please?
I've found this www.spiderex.co.uk which says it will do the job but has anyone used it?
They don't have any real pictures of a tin of the stuff, and it's a lot more expensive compared to others
http://www.pestcontrolgroup.co.uk/spider-repellent
http://www.pestcontrolgroup.co.uk/spider-repellent
Bungleaio said:
Word must have got round to the local spider population as the little posers are always trying to out do each other with who can obscure the most with their webs.
I gather this is a common thing - they're atracted by the infrared LEDs/lights. Quite how you stop it, I'm not sure.We sell Spiderex and it does work.
I was initially sceptical so we got some sample cans in and did back to back tests. It did what it said on the tin. Some quite big organisations use the stuff.
Don't spray it on the optical glass but the body of the camera and the surrounding area. It needs re-applying every now and again particularly if rain washes it away.
Henry
I was initially sceptical so we got some sample cans in and did back to back tests. It did what it said on the tin. Some quite big organisations use the stuff.
Don't spray it on the optical glass but the body of the camera and the surrounding area. It needs re-applying every now and again particularly if rain washes it away.
Henry
Sorry to say i have tried Spiderex and it does not work at keeping spiders away.
I have used it for a year now and it does not work, i sprayed all the cams 2 weeks ago and i have webs back already.
However if you read the FAQ it removes spiders and it does this really well as you see the little buggers ab-sailing down from the cameras the second you spray around them. But like i says they come back.
I have used it for a year now and it does not work, i sprayed all the cams 2 weeks ago and i have webs back already.
However if you read the FAQ it removes spiders and it does this really well as you see the little buggers ab-sailing down from the cameras the second you spray around them. But like i says they come back.
Don't just spray the camera, you have to spray the whole area around it.
I would estimate I spray clients cameras between 1.5 to 2m radius out with the camera at the centre. Eves, walls, brackets, everything. Then it works for 3-6months depending on rain etc
As you describe, it stips the little buggers from absaling in from above or wing suiting in from the sides.
V.
I would estimate I spray clients cameras between 1.5 to 2m radius out with the camera at the centre. Eves, walls, brackets, everything. Then it works for 3-6months depending on rain etc
As you describe, it stips the little buggers from absaling in from above or wing suiting in from the sides.
V.
spiderx doesn't work. We have twelve cameras, and a terrible problem with spiders. You can clean the camera one day and a complete white out of a spider web is present the next day.
Spiderx was tried extensively, and made little or no difference. A complete waste of money. We tried citronella spray wipe and a gel that was supposed to eb waterproof but wasn't.
Having bought an expensive system at the recommendation of so called experts, and then being told to spray and wipe the cameras once a week, then once a day when that didn't work, then twice a day, you can see where the expert advice was going.
Unfortunately the answer was obvious to us. Don't buy expensive cameras with the led in situ. Buy normal cameras or disable the leds in your expensive camera. Then buy an ifrared flood which comes on at night and can be put at a seperate location.
This cleared up most of the problems for us. Still not happy with the expert advice we got.
Spiderx was tried extensively, and made little or no difference. A complete waste of money. We tried citronella spray wipe and a gel that was supposed to eb waterproof but wasn't.
Having bought an expensive system at the recommendation of so called experts, and then being told to spray and wipe the cameras once a week, then once a day when that didn't work, then twice a day, you can see where the expert advice was going.
Unfortunately the answer was obvious to us. Don't buy expensive cameras with the led in situ. Buy normal cameras or disable the leds in your expensive camera. Then buy an ifrared flood which comes on at night and can be put at a seperate location.
This cleared up most of the problems for us. Still not happy with the expert advice we got.
Well, going Tesco style £/l, spiderex is £33 a litre, and No More Spiders is £7.32 a litre, which is quite a big difference.
I never knew spiders were attracted to IR lights though, they've always seemed a little indifferent to light apart from jumping spiders. You can shine torches and laser pointers at them and they don't react at all.
I never knew spiders were attracted to IR lights though, they've always seemed a little indifferent to light apart from jumping spiders. You can shine torches and laser pointers at them and they don't react at all.
TheEnd said:
Well, going Tesco style £/l, spiderex is £33 a litre, and No More Spiders is £7.32 a litre, which is quite a big difference.
I never knew spiders were attracted to IR lights though, they've always seemed a little indifferent to light apart from jumping spiders. You can shine torches and laser pointers at them and they don't react at all.
I suspect, but I'm not a spider expert that the flies/moths are attracted to the IR light and the spiders are attracted to the places they will find food I never knew spiders were attracted to IR lights though, they've always seemed a little indifferent to light apart from jumping spiders. You can shine torches and laser pointers at them and they don't react at all.
As an aside, even if we didn't have problems with spiders the flies/moths render pretty much every CCTV motion detection as irrelevant if you have working IR on them.
There were a few systems for mega bucks that use two cameras looking at the smae area, or one static and one mobile camera to detect the difference between a moth and an elephant, but the prices were ridculous compared with seperating the IR from the cameras such that we no longer get moth problem either.
'well reminded'
Edited by julian64 on Wednesday 18th June 15:22
http://www.wilko.com/insecticides+pest-control/det... worked well for me
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