Association for Butterflies Farmer's Symposium

The 2008 Association for Butterflies Symposium



What? Symposium for Butterfly Farmers

When? December 5-7.

Where? Gainesville, Florida – Country Inn and Suites

Why? Read on!



Friday - Are you raising butterflies or are interested in becoming a butterfly farmer? Then you won’t want to miss this first ever AFB Beginners Butterfly Farmers Seminar.



The seminar starts Friday morning. You will have hands on experience with pinning pupae, gathering eggs, disinfecting eggs, pairing butterflies, to packing a box with butterfly eggs, larvae, pupae, and/or adults. What will you learn? You’ll learn how to raise butterflies from A to Z plus more. This seminar is designed for new beginner farmers and covers the basics of farming. When you leave, you will leave ready to start shipping your own butterflies the professional way without any questions.



Fee for Basic Butterfly Farming Seminar on Saturday - $70.00 AFB member and $100 non-member



Are you already a butterfly farmer and know all you need to know about beginner farming? Then you won’t want to miss the next two days.



Saturday –

Disease, and how to identify it, control it, and how to eliminate it.
Would you like to learn how to make more $$, sell more butterflies, and to whom and how you can market your butterflies? Then you want to attend this symposium.
You will learn what works and what doesn’t work in a butterfly farming/breeding operation.
In office – paperwork and more
Hold on to your hats; more announcements are coming about the topics and speakers at this symposium.


Sunday –

Wedding, event, and funeral professionals are invited to attend the AFB Butterfly Release Course. This is the same course that the AFB also offers free online. YOU are invited to attend this course to watch how it is conducted and to gain ideas of centerpieces, decorations, and other ideas you can share with professionals (potential customers) in your area. Each professional takes home a gift bag of items that relate to butterfly releases. Included in this gift bag is a list of all full AFB members as well as their business cards and/or brochures. During this course professionals will each personally release a butterfly and watch several types of butterfly releases (weather permitting). If you have an idea or item you’d like displayed during this course, please email afb@forbutterflies.org with a photo of the item.

Take home a copy of the presentation that the AFB uses to teach this class (and to teach online classes) to use for your own personal business. This cd is free to full members and available to non-members for a fee. Personalization of this presentation is available for full AFB members for an extra fee. Personalized presentations will be mailed to your address after the symposium.





Sign-up Fees

Fee for just Saturday and Sunday – $175.00 AFB members - $225 non-member

Fee for all three days - $225 AFB members - $305 non-member



You say you can’t afford to come? If you are serious about butterfly farming, you can’t afford not to come. Whether you are a beginner or already raising butterflies, unless you already are raising and selling all the butterflies you want, then you won’t want to miss this symposium. It will be well worth your time and money.



If you would like to attend the AFB Symposium, please register here;




Rooms are available at Country Inn and Suites http://www.countryinns.com/gainesvillefl. 352-375-1550 To obtain a discount on your hotel room, tell the staff that you are attending the Association for Butterflies Symposium. For a list of other local motels and hotels, please write afb@forbutterflies.org.