What are the possibilities for making good money raising beneficial insects?
• A. Like all career choices, you should pick one which you enjoy. If you apply yourself and keep on learning, you can be a success in any field. The money is secondary, but it does come with the territory. • Q. What is the best way to start out? What should I concentrate on? • A. The secret is to start out with one insect, learn what you can about its biology. Then raise and market it to the hilt. After that small success, you can branch out with other insects. Always keep in mind: what you have to do to learn this business is exactly what you’d have to do to learn any business. • Q. What does the future hold for those who rear beneficial insects? • A. The future looks good indeed. The way things are going with modern day agricultural practices, the only thing we’ll have left to combat insect pests are their predators, the beneficial insects which we alone raise. • Q. Isn’t raising (or rearing) beneficial insects a messy job? • A. No way. In fact you’d better keep a very clean operati
