Has anyone figured out a good way to keep spiders /spiderwebs from ruining video on V3 and V4 cameras? I tend mine daily and use peppermint spray with very little impact.
Is peppermint spray supposed to keep spiders away? On behalf of the arachnids I say let the Spiders do their helpful spider thing and put the blame on the underlying cause…Spiders will spin webs only in places where there is a potential food source, opposed to insects (food source) that are directly attracted to either the camera (light, heat?) or the immediate location of the camera (outdoor light bulb). Maybe not the most helpful advice (put the cameras where bugs aren’t) but better than weaponised peppermint maybe.
A broom with a long handle does wonders and can reach those cameras high up in the eaves. 
A couple of my cams are near outdoor lights, sometimes I get a string in front of the cam and need to go remove it, but it isn’t too frequent. As has been mentioned, you may want to consider relocating the cams if they’re near lights or another area where spiders are attracted due to lots of bugs.
This one is by far my favorite, the only time it was a full web (usually just a single support line or random thread) - too bad this cam doesn’t support time lapse (and I was too lazy to download it off the SD card and do a time lapse in an editor program)
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Thanks for your Spider comments. For now I’m just remaining frustrated until they go away in the winter months Thanks tlhutch4
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Then the rain drops and snow flakes will come 
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I haven’t seen any spider webs, but my cams are inside looking out a window. I also have infrared turned off. We have bugs year-round in South Florida. I do occasionally have to clean the windows.
Yeah, outdoors these cams are bug magnets day and night. I think it is a combination of heat, noise and emitted light. I have flies, wasps and butterflys constantly flying around the cameras during daytime. At night different bugs take turns. More at the cottage then in the city though.
During the day I don’t notice anything like that, at night I think most people have the cams near doors etc which have lights and attract bugs (and even when not near a door, if the IR lights are on, then it is really a bug magnet).
The cottage is in a deep Canadian woods, so all kinds of insects are flying around. I keep my IR lights and status lights off. There are no artificial lights around two of my cameras. The other two are facing a string of solar lights that are exactly sixteen foot away.
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My guess is your cams are just picking up the normal saturation of bugs in their particular area 
Obviously if it is cold out they could be attracted to the bit of heat from the cam, though I’ve had mine through winters and didn’t seem to notice any uptick in “buzzing the camera” incidents (Top Gun reference 
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That heat seems to attract spiders more than bugs
I wonder if @Sam_Bam has this issue with his outdoor design?
In my case the spiders are attracted to the lights near my cams due to the plentiful bugs. With the exception of an occasional string in front of the camera, not a big issue for me.
Every now and then I get a great “Mothra” picture on one that is mounted below an outdoor light though.
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No. Wasps. But a good squirt of Simple Green concentrate fixes them permanently. Just don’t spray it on the Wyze cam, 'cause it will dissolve the plastic.
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I’m going to try your Simple Green concentrate today…Thanks
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Some people are doing this: Using a bucket or pot of gasoline. Its not the liquid that knocks them out, but the fumes quickly. However, as you can see, you get close and if you are on a step off the ground, your escape is limited.
I have a couple of the Simple Green spray bottles. One set on stream the other on spray. I often find a nest in side a box-like porch light. I come up with the stream and give them 2-3 shots before they can start towards me. In the meantime, I am bring up the spray, the cloud is enough to make them leave or scatter. Then leave them alone for a while to settle down and come back. If it takes 2-3 visits, I have avoided the sting.
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I like using wasp spray but in conjunction with a lighter. If I’m going to get stung, it might as well be by a flaming mutant wasp, not some boring regular one.
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I have a cam slightly back on a fence board. A local squirrel uses that board for a path and brushes the cam off when it runs by. Works great, but probably not always practical.
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Have you ever watched Mark Rober’s YouTube videos on his backyard squirrel mazes? Amazing.