Insect Farming

Insect farming is an important business among the sentient races of Welt, being a readily accessible and plentiful source of protein. Insect husbandry is also useful for its use of insects as labor. 
Generally, insects that cannot be ridden, aren't a food source or don't provide a service (agriculture, pest control, or silks for example) aren't domesticated.
== Farming for consumption ==
Isopodes and crickets are farmed in large drums of charcoal, sometimes with scraps of food mixed in. To harvest, the drum is filled with water and the floaters filtered off the surface.
Frogfodder flies are also farmed in drums, the drum is cooled before harvesting to make the flies sluggish and easy to harvest.
Bees are prime commercial insects. Their beeswax is odorless, for candles and polish. Honey is antibacterial, and doesn't spoil. The only thing their honey can't cure uis bee stings.
== Husbandry farming ==
Domesticated giant mole crickets dig canals for trade and commerce.
== Notes ==
=== Cane smuggler ===
Practice of hiding valuable insects such as bees or silk worms in a hollow cane to bring back to countries they aren't native to. Most commercial insects are smuggled this way.
=== Locusts ===
Locusts move from place to place to eat. Only thing to curb them is to eat them in turn.
=== Giant insects ===
Monster insects are possible with higher levels of oxygen in the air. Insect poison in this case is a matter of quantity not potency.
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