Description

Advanced Butterfly Raising

Two new eBooks designed specifically to help you to improve and maximize your production methods!

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Part1

• Control Techniques and Methods to Ramp Up Production
• Raising High Numbers in Limited Space
• The Three Ways to Best Raise the Species

Part I gives a very badly needed review of diseases and parasitoids, what they are, how they enter our breeding operations and how to eradicate/prevent them.

Part I gives complete information on the THREE very best ways to raise butterflies – depending on the species you are raising.  Nigel thoroughly reviews two methods and has some “twists” on them as he continually improves ways to raise better butterflies, more efficiently and in higher numbers!  This is amazing stuff!

The Pop-Up Method, the Sleeving Method and the newly developed and tested Styrene Box Method are explained from A to Z, with photos and videos for the details.  You won’t want to miss learning the new methods or not get the nuggets that are all through the article.

Learn how to raise more butterflies with the least amount of work, space and equipment!  Eliminate disease, raise your output and reduce your labor with tested and proven methods.  Taught by world-renowned butterfly raising expert, Nigel Venters (testing and using his efficient methods to reach monthly, commercial output of up to 9500 healthy, vibrant butterflies per month)!   

Part I includes an overview of aeroponic growing systems available for rapid growth of host plants to feed your larvae, including Judi Sunshine’s aeroponics system.

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Part 2

• Maximum Monarchs – Romping Mode Production!
• Overwintering
• Start-up
• Styrene Box Method
• Sterilizing the Life Stages
• Storage for Long Life

Tested, new methods and techniques to raise high numbers of disease-free, O.e.-free Monarchs.

• Eight-week-old, fresh, vibrant Monarchs??!!
• Milkweed Vines for OE-free Monarchs??! (OE = ophryocystis elektroscirrha)
• Using Milton’s Solution on Eggs and Larvae, too??!!
• Reduce your lifecycle raising time by as much as 50%??!!

Overwintering Monarchs, the process in detail, starting up a new season with strong genetic stock. Review of the overwintering process, with specific instruction on how to incorporate this technique into your raising, especially for clean startups each year with Monarchs.

Using specialty lights and heat units to control emergence and reduce the lifecycle development time by as much as 50%.

Special holding techniques to extend Monarch/butterfly life as long as six to eight weeks with detailed instruction for temperatures, chillers, thermostats and feeding methods.

The Styrene Box Method for raising Monarchs, incorporating the heat strips/pads for “Romping Mode Monarchs!”

Eliminate cripples with special pinning methods for Monarch and speed emergence.

Using Milton’s Solution for sterilizing the lifecycle stages.

 

 

Here is one day’s emergence in a large Pop-Up cage! How to feed this beautiful batch without removing them from the Pop-Up.

Part II also includes a bonus paper by Melanie McCarthy and Terry Terbush, on Monarch Eggs & Egg Sterilization. This article presents techniques and recipe for washing and sterilizing Monarch eggs, to eradicate OE infection at the very beginning of the lifecycle and raising process. (Recipe updated for use with stronger bleach products introduced to the marketplace in 2013.)