Ants in Cam

[greg54]

Went to check my cams yesterday that I had put up about a month ago on my sisters property. I had bought less expensive cams over winter to replace 4 good ones the scumbags stole last year. When I got to second cam, I noticed lots of ants on outside of it crawling all around. I knocked them off and opened cam up, and they had made a nest full of eggs inside. I popped out s.d. card and they started crawling out from inside of cam. Anyways, that cam stayed where it was as I consider it junk. Cheaper cams certainly have flaws, and bugs getting into them is one of them.And the s.d. card was no good when I checked it back at home. I did get few pics from my other cam, at least that was bug free!!

[GreeneHunter]

Nice Pics anyway !

[First-light]

I had the same thing. Cam was on a pine tree the ants love the sap. 

[Meat Manager]

Happened to me last year when I forgot to plug up the 12v power port on my expensive mms cam.

Took it home and hosed it out with 91% IPA, still works great a year later.

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[fasteddie]

I had that on a couple Trail Cams . I took a couple cotton balls and sprayed them with some ant poison . Then I put them inside the cover . No more ants .

[greg54]

I had that on a couple Trail Cams . I took a couple cotton balls and sprayed them with some ant poison . Then I put them inside the cover . No more ants .

Good idea Eddie, I'm going give that a try next trip out to my sisters. I'm going order another cam this week.

[phade]

Take the camera, put it in the freezer for a few days. Use compressed air to blow out the ants after opening up the cam internals cover.