Buying Bugs for Macro Photography - 5 Tips for the Best Experience

Buying Bugs was made possible by a generous grant from Mr. Jan Nelson.
Thank you, Jan, for your unfailing support and boundless patience!

This is a long video, there was no way to cut anything else and still give you all the information I think you should have. So I have split it into chapters, as follows:
00:00 Introduction and background
04:30 The bug business
06:00 The conduct of the project
08:11 A bee in a bottle
10:26 Lesson 1 - the biz
13:06 Lesson 2 - the vendor
16:00 Lesson 3 - the product
21:00 Lesson 4 - the money
26:06 Lesson 5 - Plan ahead
29:30 The Companies
39:00 Conclusions

The organizations on my recommended list are as follows - these are not all of them, just all of the ones I have experience with - and this will change as I try others and expand the reach of on this project. They are:
Insects World Shop - https://www.insectsworldshop.com/Catalogue
Insect Trade EU - https://www.insect-trade.eu
BIC Bugs - https://bicbugs.com
The Butterfly Company - https://www.thebutterflycompany.com
Insect Designs - https://www.insectdesigns.com/home.php
Exotic Insects - https://www.exotic-insects.com/index.php
The Insect Collector - https://www.theinsectcollector.com
The Insect Collectors Shop - https://collectionneurdinsectes.com
ALD entomologie - http://boutique.ald-entomologie.fr/en_US
Thorne's Insect Shop - https://thornesinsects.com

Stuff you need... (some of these links are affiliate links - you buy something and Amazon pays me a small commission - so you get the stuff you need and can also feel super-good about helping me out, like I did for you when I made this video! A win-win-win-win type thing).
If you are ordering insects, make sure you have what you need when they arrive, things like:
something to see them with - @
a camera - @
a lens for you Z - @
a focus rail - @
some fancy extension tubes - @
the best flash units for macro ever - @
the best flash trigger - @
and it is time you got over your thing about Macs and just get the best computer for focus stacking and image processing that I have ever owned - @
and in for a penny, in for a pound, a monitor - @
I assume you already have a WeMacro rail? https://www.wemacro.com

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If you would like to support my work, you can do so in any of the following ways:
by becoming a Patreon patron - @llsphotography
By making a donation to the video assistance fund on my website @ns
You could buy me a cup of coffee via PayPal, but clicking on @cro
If you wanted to help me without having to give me anything, you could use this link when you go shopping on Amazon - that is it, you don’t have to do anything else but you will have helped the channel pay the bills - the link is https://amzn.to/3eV74vk

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