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Lepidoptera Disease Information and Management
Lepidoptera diseases are deadly important to butterflies!
Because of that fact, they are serious to butterfly farmers and enthusiasts. From farmers to teachers, students to research facilities,
to the bride and groom, but most of all to butterflies themselves, butterfly diseases should be taken seriously by butterfly farmers.
In the same manner the flu will travel through a daycare, a virus often spreads through caterpillars reared in the same container.
Disease prevention and control are essential in a responsible butterfly farm.
AFB offers a course on butterfly diseases;
How to recognize the presence of diseases
How to identify diseases
How to prevent diseases
How to control diseases
How to clean up and sterilize after diseases
Where to send diseased specimens for identification>br?
And more ...
Disease in Lepidoptera Course
Check with your local university or college's insect pathology department. Local pathologists may check your livestock without a fee.
Facilities which offer services to take your diseased stock for disease identification are:
Mississippi State University Insect Pathology.
Scroll down for insect pathology submission information.
Facilities which offer workshops with a strong focus on disease prevention and rearing healthy livestock:
Insect Rearing Workshop.
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