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How to Give Professional Butterfly Education Presentations
Advanced Butterfly Raising
The Painted Lady & Longwing Butterflies
Let's Raise Swallowtails!
The Butterfly Flight House
Maximum Monarchs & More!
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How to Give Professional Butterfly Education Presentations
Part I by Grace Venters of Graceful Butterflies
Part II by Lori Stralow Harris of Saltcreek Butterfly Farm.
Learn how to plan, promote and give Professional Butterfly Education Presentations to increase your income! Some folk have found this so rewarding that they've made it their main business. Others add presentations onto their butterfly farming activities or add it as a part-time, income producer.
Geared towards the exhibit professionals as they work with people touring their butterfly houses, to enchant special groups.
Includes great bonus handouts to use in your business, games, crafts, posters, diagrams… to get you started or to add to what you are already doing!
What You Will Learn
How to plan exciting, funny, fascinating and educational presentations for schools, exhibit attendees, senior centers, special groups that will keep you popular and booked up way in advance! Games, lifecycle props, costumes, interactive fun and hand-outs will be covered. Let two pro's show you how, what works, keeping your audience captivated and giving a quality learning experience!
Grace Venters, of Graceful Butterflies, will teach Part I:
- How to promote your Professional Butterfly Educational Presentations
- Newsletter/ How to introduce yourself and your Butterfly Education Presentations
- Description and Aims of the Presentations
- How to deliver your Presentations
- PowerPoint for your Programs
- Dressing up for Presentations
- Games to Play and Learn
- Crafts - Special Fun for Participants
Lori Harris, Saltcreek Butterfly Farm, will teach Part II:
- Vocabulary across disciplines: Art, Nature, Science, Spirituality
- Art and Nature intertwined
- Creative Process: Look, Decipher, Interpret, Evaluate
- Flutter Tales Story Hour, 3-5 year olds
- Independent Readers Library Program, 6-10 yr olds
- Art in Nature Camp Sessions, 6-12 yr olds
- Special needs
- Grief counseling
- Senior citizens
3. Classroom management tips
4. Games
5. Marketing
Bonus Items:
- Our Environment - by Grace Venters [PDF]
- Magical Wings [PDF]
- Life-size Local Butterfly Guide (Make Laminated Butterfly Sticks!) [PDF]
- How to make a Floral Butterfly Cage [JPG]
- Butterfly Maze Handout [JPG]
- Old World Swallowtail Butterfly Maze - Easy & Hard versions, with solutions [JPG]
- School Presentations [video]
- Plantable Butterflies [video]
- Paper butterflies made of recycle paper, containing seeds [video]
- Butterflies for Little Ones [PDF]
- Seed Bombs [PDF]
Advanced Butterfly Raising
Two new ebooks designed specifically to help you to improve and maximise your production methods!
Part I:
- 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 video's 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.
- 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 O.e.-free Monarchs??!
• 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 sterlizing 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 O.e. infection at the very beginning of the lifecycle and raising process. (Recipe updated for use with stronger bleach products introduced to the market place in 2013.)
The Painted Lady & Longwing Butterflies Workshop (Vanessa and Heliconidae)
Online Workshop - Set of Four ebooks by: Nigel Venters with additional material by Melanie McCarthy, Dean Kirkwood and Linda Rogers.
- Painted Ladies*, Vanessas
- Red Admirals
- Heliconida:
- Gulf Fritillary
- Julia Dryas
- Zebra Longwing
- Postman Longwing
* Painted Lady Butterflies (Vanessa species, sub-species Cynthia: cardui, virginiensis, annabella.. and even the Australian/New Zealand kershawi)
(NOTE: This item is included in the Professional Butterfly Farming Manual)
A note from Nigel Venters about the workshop:This workshop presents instruction on all aspects of breeding Painted Ladies, Red Admirals, and the Long-Wings (Heliconidae) species. Although Painted Ladies and Long-Wings are from totally separate butterfly families, and it may appear unusual to include them together, they share a number of common solutions when being captive bred. It is only for this reason they are combined in to a single, comprehensive workshop, covering every aspect the breeder needs to know to be successful with them
This workshop starts with the most efficient egg laying set-ups, followed by their care at every stage. Although many of these species will accept a wide range of host-plants, many of these plants are actually marginal host-plants, or are not the best to use in an efficient breeding set-up.
As usual, the workshop discusses in detail the best way to breed these species, trouble free, using the minimum possible space, and with the minimum effort or work required to do so. In short, you will breed huge amount of healthy butterflies, consistently in the smallest space possible, which allows large numbers to be bred at the same time.
The Long-wings are covered in depth, and as the Gulf Fritillary, is by far the most popular Long-wing amongst breeders, there is a long section on this species,. Of course Zebra Longwings, The Postman, and many of the more tropical species are covered in depth. There will be a long section of breeding all these species in climates that would not normally allow overwintering, and will allow year round breeding if required, or just keeping a breeding stock alive though a cold winter, ready to start off again in the spring when the warmer weather returns.
The section about Painted Ladies details how to raise using natural Host-plants. However, a separate, detailed section on artificial diet for Painted Ladies is provided by experienced commercial butterfly breeders Melanie McCarthy, Dean Kirkwood and Linda Rogers. Melanie in particular is an expert on this subject, with many years experience of breeding Painted Ladies on A.D. and has ironed out all of the problems for you!
Nigel
Available for download as a set of four separate ebooks
or as one combined ebook totaling 124 pages...
- ebook 1: An introduction to the Vanessa butterflies (27 pages)
- ebook 2: An introduction to the Longwing (Heliconid) butterflies (27 pages)
- ebook 3: Breeding the Painted Lady, Red Admiral (Vanessa species) and Longwing (Heliconid species) butterflies* (33 pages)
- ebook 4: Raising Painted Lady (Vanessa) butterflies on Artificial Diet* (36 pages) -
* includes additional information taken from the actual workshop.
Let's Raise Swallowtails!
Parts I & II
Part One
Online Workshop Set of Eight ebooks by Nigel Venters
The eight ebooks illustrating every subject in this on-line Workshop are now available for purchase as a complete set.
Each ebook focuses entirely on the subject heading. The ebooks are very comprehensive, and the combined document is over 90 pages. The ebooks have color photos and are supplied in .pdf format, either as one complete file or as eight separate ebooks.
The eight ebooks in Let's Raise Swallowtails Part One are:
- Swallowtails - their habits, and locating suitable areas to collect livestock.
- Simple to breed species, to start off your breeding programme.
- Pairing Techniques, hand-pairing versus natural pairings.
- Host-plants, how to choose what to use.
- Getting the females to lay eggs.
- Eggs, larvae and pupae handling.
- Avoiding parasites and disease.
- The individual species in detail, and this will includes notes on breeding the following Swallowtail species:
- USA – All the Swallowtail species known from the US.
- Europe – All the Swallowtail species known from Europe.
- Australia– All the Swallowtail species known from Australia.
- The Far East – Many species from the Far East, however, this will not be so comprehensive as there are so many species there!
- Africa - Many species from Africa, however, this will not be so comprehensive as there are so many species there!
- Central &South America– Many species from Central & South America, however, this will not be so comprehensive as there are so many species there!
Species covered: (Fennel; Rue; "citrus" family; and Aristolochia Feeders)
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(Part Two)
Online Workshop Set of Eight ebooks by Nigel Venters
The eight ebooks illustrating every subject in this on-line Workshop are now available for purchase as a complete set.
Each ebook focuses entirely on the subject heading. The ebooks are very comprehensive, and the combined document is over 90 pages. The ebooks have color photos and are supplied in .pdf format, either as one complete file or as eight separate ebooks.
- Some new notes on breeding the Carrot family feeding Swallowtails on Artificial Diet
- Success with some of the more difficult Swallowtail species to breed
- Temperature experiments
- Larvae and Pupae, overwintering, forcing and coordinated emergence
- Hybridization techniques
- Mimicry
- Avoiding Parasites & disease
- Notes on breeding the individual Swallowtail species (divided by country or region).
Species covered include: (Laurel, Deciduous Trees and other hostplant feeders)
- Tigers
- Parides
- Birdwings (Ornithoptera)
The Butterfly Flight House
ebook by Nigel Venters
Design and construction of an efficient flight house - for all levels of interest from hobbyist to large-scale commercial butterfly breeding facilities.
This 40+ page ebook, filled with color photos and detailed descriptions, was written by Nigel as the basis for the week-long online Butterfly Flight House workshop. It covers the design and construction of an efficient butterfly flight house and is aimed to cover all levels of interest, from the hobbyists to large scale Commercial breeders. The ebook examines the requirements needed for small, medium and large scale production levels, to facilitate the design of an effective flight-house for all levels of interest.
(NOTE: This item is included in the Professional Butterfly Farming Manual)
Maximum Monarchs & More!
Daily Class Article Set ebooks by Nigel Venters
If you missed the first online workshop, you can still purchase the set of class files – which are detailed technical articles authored by the workshop leader and world renowned butterfly expert, Nigel Venters.
Our first workshop was titled “Maximum Monarchs & More!” with an impressive amount of information given to attendees, with the daily, class article and an online group forum that allowed for question and answers.
Here is the set of workshop ebooks with a description of the topics covered. The set of articles is SIXTY SEVEN PAGES TOTAL! The ebooks have color photos and are in .pdf file format.
(NOTE: This item is included in the Professional Butterfly Farming Manual)
Day One
MAXIMUM MONARCHS
Day Two
OTHER EFFECTIVE BREEDING OPTIONS & NOTES
Day Three
MONARCHS – ADDITIONAL TOPICS
Migratory and non-migratory Monarchs and their different behaviors. Refrigerator or cooler: how to use these options successfully at all lifecycle stages. Methods for holding/keeping fresh adults to ship according to your schedule Force-feeding Monarchs, in detail
Day Four
BREEDING OTHER SPECIES
PART ONE: Swallowtails
PART ONE BONUS: Swallowtail Host Plants
PART TWO: Painted Ladies and Red Admirals
PART THREE: Mourning Cloaks
Day Five
THE FLIGHT HOUSE
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