The Advanced Guide to Commercial Butterfly Production
By Nigel Venters and Linda Rogers.
Get your farm into maximum production mode, cut your labor and minimize disease problems with this special breeding and raising information! These methods and techniques have been proven in the field for farm production on two levels:
FARM A: 500 to 2,000 butterflies per week
FARM B: Up to 10,000 per week
Learn innovative methods and procedures to
- Produce butterflies with almost no risk of disease
- Increase your production and MINIMIZE your labor and time!
That's right! Implement more natural raising techniques that virtually eliminate disease and take the worry out of raising butterflies…. AND cut your time and labor drastically!
The methods, equipment and procedures developed and implemented by Nigel Venters, are being used to produce consistently high volumes of butterflies and pupae in South American facilities. The successful, smaller-scale farm was put into operation by Steve and Linda Rogers. Instruction is for all levels of experience and farm sizes, giving specific ways and means to increase production dramatically.
1.0 Introduction and Overview of the Farms
 Read the Introduction and Overview
2.0 Farm A: Up to 1,000 Butterflies Per Week
Description of Farm A: Facilities and Operation, Production Requirements: Food and Nectar Plants, Butterfly Mating and Egg Laying, Larvae and Pupae, Adult Butterfly Care, Raising Other Butterflies to Supplement the Monarch, and Livestock Planning and Production Tracking
3.0 Farm B: Up to 10,000 Butterflies Per Week
Constructing the High-Output Butterfly Farm: Overview, Constructing the Flight House, Nectar and Host Plants, Emergence and Care of Adult Butterflies, Mating and Egg Production, Caterpillars and Pupation, Parasitoids, Fungus and Disease, Controls, Techniques and Tips, Planning Tasks and Organizing Production, Control Forms: Daily and Weekly Reports, and Projections
4.0 Special Information
Sterilization for Eggs, Plants and Equipment, Increase Your Sales and Orders, The Travelling Butterfly Exhibit, Hydroponic Milkweed Production
5.0 Color Photograph Album
Customer Comments
From: Carol Gonzalez
To: Linda Rogers
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003
Subject: Re: Manual
Hi Linda,
Recevied the advanced manual today from you thank you. I have been checking my mailbox every day! All I have to say is GREAT MANUAL!!! Lots of pictures (I needed that), I just flipped through it and read a couple of things and I already can see this is awsome!!!! Now if I can get rid of my kids for the day I could sit down and read it : )
Have a great day!
Carol Gonzalez
From: Amy Atwood
To: IBBA Mailing List
Subject: Re: inside rearing
There is a manual called 'The Advanced Guide To Commercial Butterfly Farming' by Nigel Venters and Linda Rogers with Grace Sipowicz and Paul Chesterfield. It is VERY thorough, and talks all about 'getting outside'! I love it. I got it at the IBBA convention in Niagara Falls hot off the press.
The manual before this one 'The Commercial Butterfly Breeders Manual' by the same authors is also great. here are a few places you can get them, try www.butterflyboutique.net You are so lucky to be in S. Cal! I am in NH and have a short season. To move outside, basically set up in a shadecloth covered hoophouse-type structure, and raise your larvae on the milkweed in there, and also use a section of it for a flight house. Of course, that's a very abbreviated explanation but...
Hope this helps!
Amy
Price: $95 includes shipping and handling.
File Downloads
The Advanced Guide to Commercial Butterfly Production describes the use of a number of documents that have been developed to assist you in planning and managing your farm production schedules. Owners of the Advanced Guide to Commercial Butterfly Production may obtain these files by contacting Linda Rogers.
All documents are Copyright © 2002, The Butterfly Boutique.
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