Alex: I’m Alex Fees for Small Business Television, SBTV.com. We are on location in Baltimore
at the 2009 pet industries spring trade show, it is brought to you by HHBacker associates,
publishers of Pet Age magazine. Gordon, show me your bugs.
Gordon: Bugs are right here.
Alex: Yeah. What are we looking at here?
Gordon: We have insects for the feeding market, primarily meant for anything that lives near the
forest floor. All God’s creature have to eat and I make the bugs that they eat.
Alex: And what kind of bugs are these?
Gordon: They range from South American exotic beetles, this is the larval form, to caterpillars,
wax moth, to meal worms, and crickets.
Alex: Gordon, who are these bugs for? Who eats the, what creature, I should say, eats these
bugs?
Gordon: Alex, just about everybody eats bugs, including us, if we’re hungry enough, but
primarily this is intended for the reptile market. Birds, small mammals, monkeys, spiders, all
sorts of things eat them. But we raised them mainly for the universities, zoos, and pet stores.
Alex: Okay, and Gordon, to be clear here, these bugs are not process into food, these bugs are
food? Right?
Gordon: These are the food, that’s correct.
Alex: Okay, so how does this work? I mean this is for who?
Gordon: Well, the gene pool, and the economy are widen deep, we’re in the shallow end of it,
but it’s an end that’s really important. Because the whole industry depends of having a live food
source for a whole host of animals that now make up over 4 percent of the pet population in the
US, reptiles.
Alex: So what kind of reptiles we talking about? A little, what? People have alligators, people
have crocodiles?
Gordon: No, actually it’s more like hand pets, things like leopard geckos and bearded dragons,
turtles, frogs, tarantulas, things like hedgehogs, flying squirrels, anything that basically will eat
an insect has to have something that isn’t too exotic, they can't be wild harvested, because of the
chemicals and the flittins in the environment, so raised in a farm in sterile conditions basically.
Fed special foods to beef them up so that they have the nutrients necessary and then distributed
to the pet stores which then sell them on the demand basis to consumers.
Alex: So Gordon, these are not, these are not just any grub worms, right?
Gordon: Oh, absolutely not, these are special. These are ones that are chosen from a whole range
of insects that can be eaten to ones that can really be rump up to commercial quantities.
Alex: Gordon, where can people go, where do people go to get more information about the Bug
Company?
Gordon: Well the best place to be on line at www.ebugco.com.
Alex: ebugco.com.
Gordon: Correct.
Alex: All right sir, thank you very much.
Gordon: Thanks Alex.
Alex: Glad to meet you.
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