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imperialism and science reading list

edited: by popular demand, now with much longer list of books

Of course Katherine McKittrick and Kathryn Yusoff.

People like Achille Mbembe, Pratik Chakrabarti, Rohan Deb Roy, Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, and Elizabeth Povinelli have written some “classics” and they track the history/historiography of US/European scientific institutions and their origins in extraction, plantations, race/slavery, etc.

Two articles I’d recommend as a summary/primer:

Zaheer Baber. “The Plants of Empire: Botanic Gardens, Colonial Power and Botanical Knowledge.” Journal of Contemporary Asia. May 2016.

Kathryn Yusoff. “The Inhumanities.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 2020.

Then probably:

Irene Peano, Marta Macedo, and Colette Le Petitcorps. “Introduction: Viewing Plantations at the Intersection of Political Ecologies and Multiple Space-Times.” Global Plantations in the Modern World: Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives. 2023.

Sharae Deckard. “Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization: Exploiting Eden.” 2010. (Chornological overview of development of knowledge/institutions in relationship with race, slavery, profit as European empires encountered new lands and peoples.)

Gregg Mitman. “Forgotten Paths of Empire: Ecology, Disease, and Commerce in the Making of Liberia’s Plantation Economy.” Environmental History. 2017, (Interesting case study. US corporations were building fruit plantations in Latin America and rubber plantations in West Africa during the 1920s. Medical doctors, researchers, and academics made a strong alliance these corporations to advance their careers and solidify their institutions. By 1914, the director of Harvard’s Department of Tropical Medicine was also simultaneously the director of the Laboratories of the Hospitals of the United Fruit Company, which infamously and brutally occupied Central America. This same Harvard doctor was also a shareholder in rubber plantations, and had a close personal relationship with the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, which occupied West Africa.)

Elizabeth DeLoughrey. “Globalizing the Routes of Breadfruit and Other Bounties.”  2008. (Case study of how British wealth and industrial development built on botany. Examines Joseph Banks; Kew Gardens; breadfruit; British fear of labor revolts; and the simultaneous colonizing of the Caribbean and the South Pacific.)

Elizabeth DeLoughrey. “Satellite Planetarity and the Ends of the Earth.” 2014. (Indigenous knowledge systems; “nuclear colonialism”; US empire in the Pacific; space/satellites; the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.)

Fahim Amir. “Cloudy Swords.” e-flux Journal #115, February 2021. (”Pest control”; termites; mosquitoes; fear of malaria and other diseases during German colonization of Africa and US occupations of Panama and the wider Caribbean; origins of some US institutions and the evolution of these institutions into colonial, nationalist, and then NGO forms over twentieth century.)

Some of the earlier generalist classic books that explicitly looked at science as a weapon of empires:

Schiebinger’s Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World; Delbourgo’s and Dew’s Science and Empire in the Atlantic World; the anthology Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World; Canzares-Esquerra’s Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World.

One of the quintessential case studies of science in the service of empire is the British pursuit of quinine and the inoculation of their soldiers and colonial administrators to safeguard against malaria in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia at the height of their power. But there are so many other exemplary cases: Britain trying to domesticate and transplant breadfruit from the South Pacific to the Caribbean to feed laborers to prevent slave uprisings during the age of the Haitian Revolution. British colonial administrators smuggling knowledge of tea cultivation out of China in order to set up tea plantations in Assam. Eugenics, race science, biological essentialism, etc. in the early twentieth century. With my interests, my little corner of exposure/experience has to do mostly with conceptions of space/place; interspecies/multispecies relationships; borderlands and frontiers; Caribbean; Latin America; islands. So, a lot of these recs are focused there. But someone else would have better recs, especially depending on your interests. For example, Chakrabarti writes about history of medicine/healthcare. Paravisini-Gebert about extinction and Caribbean relationship to animals/landscape. Deb Roy focuses on insects and colonial administration in South Asia. Some scholars focus on the historiography and chronological trajectory of “modernity” or “botany” or “universities/academia,”, while some focus on Early Modern Spain or Victorian Britain or twentieth-century United States by region. With so much to cover, that’s why I’d recommend the articles above, since they’re kinda like overviews.Generally I read more from articles, essays, and anthologies, rather than full-length books.

Some other nice articles:

(On my blog, I’ve got excerpts from all of these articles/essays, if you want to search for or read them.)

Katherine McKittrick. “Dear April: The Aesthetics of Black Miscellanea.” Antipode. First published September 2021.

Katherine McKittrick. “Plantation Futures.” Small Axe. 2013.

Antonio Lafuente and Nuria Valverde. “Linnaean Botany and Spanish Imperial Biopolitics.” A chapter in: Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World. 2004.

Kathleen Susan Murphy. “A Slaving Surgeon’s Collection: The Pursuit of Natural History through the British Slave Trade to Spanish America.” 2019. And also: “The Slave Trade and Natural Science.” In: Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. 2016.

Timothy J. Yamamura. “Fictions of Science, American Orientalism, and the Alien/Asian of Percival Lowell.” 2017.

Elizabeth Bentley. “Between Extinction and Dispossession: A Rhetorical Historiography of the Last Palestinian Crocodile (1870-1935).” 2021.

Pratik Chakrabarti. “Gondwana and the Politics of Deep Past.” Past & Present 242:1. 2019.

Jonathan Saha. “Colonizing elephants: animal agency, undead capital and imperial science in British Burma.” BJHS Themes. British Society for the History of Science. 2017.

Zoe Chadwick. “Perilous plants, botanical monsters, and (reverse) imperialism in fin-de-siecle literature.” The Victorianist: BAVS Postgraduates. 2017.

Dante Furioso: “Sanitary Imperialism.” Jeremy Lee Wolin: “The Finest Immigration Station in the World.” Serubiri Moses. “A Useful Landscape.” Andrew Herscher and Ana Maria Leon. “At the Border of Decolonization.” All from e-flux.

William Voinot-Baron. “Inescapable Temporalities: Chinook Salmon and the Non-Sovereignty of Co-Management in Southwest Alaska.” 2019.

Rohan Deb Roy. “White ants, empire, and entomo-politics in South Asia.” The Historical Journal. 2 October 2019.  

Rohan Deb Roy. “Introduction: Nonhuman Empires.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 35 (1). May 2015.

Lawrence H. Kessler. “Entomology and Empire: Settler Colonial Science  and the Campaign for Hawaiian Annexation.” Arcadia (Spring 2017).

Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner. “Monster as Medium: Experiments in Perception in Early Modern Science and Film.” e-flux. March 2021.

Lesley Green. “The Changing of the Gods of Reason: Cecil John Rhodes, Karoo Fracking, and the Decolonizing of the Anthropocene.” e-flux Journal Issue #65. May 2015.

Martin Mahony. “The Enemy is Nature: Military Machines and Technological Bricolage in Britain’s ‘Great Agricultural Experiment.’“ Environment and Society Portal, Arcadia. Spring 2021. 

Anna Boswell. “Anamorphic Ecology, or the Return of the Possum.” 2018. And; “Climates of Change: A Tuatara’s-Eye View.”2020. And: “Settler Sanctuaries and the Stoat-Free State." 2017.

Katherine Arnold. “Hydnora Africana: The ‘Hieroglyphic Key’ to Plant Parasitism.” Journal of the History of Ideas - JHI Blog - Dispatches from the Archives. 21 July 2021.

Helen F. Wilson. “Contact zones: Multispecies scholarship through Imperial Eyes.” Environment and Planning. July 2019.

Tom Brooking and Eric Pawson. “Silences of Grass: Retrieving the Role of Pasture Plants in the Development of New Zealand and the British Empire.” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. August 2007.

Kirsten Greer. “Zoogeography and imperial defence: Tracing the contours of the Neactic region in  the temperate North Atlantic, 1838-1880s.” Geoforum Volume 65. October 2015. And: “Geopolitics and the Avian Imperial Archive: The Zoogeography of Region-Making in the Nineteenth-Century British Mediterranean.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 2013,

Marco Chivalan Carrillo and Silvia Posocco. “Against Extraction in Guatemala: Multispecies Strategies in Vampiric Times.” International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. April 2020.

Laura Rademaker. “60,000 years is not forever: ‘time revolutions’ and Indigenous pasts.” Postcolonial Studies. September 2021.

Paulo Tavares. “The Geological Imperative: On the Political Ecology of the Amazon’s Deep History.” Architecture in the Anthropocene. Edited by Etienne Turpin. 2013.

Kathryn Yusoff. “Geologic Realism: On the Beach of Geologic Time.” Social Text. 2019. And: “The Anthropocene and Geographies of Geopower.” Handbook on the Geographies of Power. 2018. And: “Climates of sight: Mistaken visbilities, mirages and ‘seeing beyond’ in Antarctica.” In: High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains, Ice and Science. 2008. And:“Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene.” 2017. And: “An Interview with Elizabeth Grosz: Geopower, Inhumanism and the Biopolitical.” 2017.

Mara Dicenta. “The Beavercene: Eradication and Settler-Colonialism in Tierra del Fuego.” Arcadia. Spring 2020.

And then here are some books:

Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 (Cameron B. Strang); Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (Londa Schiebinger, 2004);

Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950 (Helen Tilley, 2011); Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar (Jonathan Saha); Fluid Geographies: Water, Science and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico (K. Maria D. Lane, 2024);  Geopolitics, Culture, and the Scientific Imaginary in Latin America (Edited by del Pilar Blanco and Page, 2020)

Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire (Kirsten A. Greer); The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity (Hawthorne and Lewis, 2022); Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture (Britt Rusert, 2017)

The Empirical Empire: Spanish Colonial Rule and the Politics of Knowledge (Arndt Brendecke, 2016); In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1960 (Alice Conklin, 2013); Unfreezing the Arctic: Science, Colonialism, and the Transformation of Inuit Lands (Andrew Stuhl)

Anglo-European Science and the Rhetoric of Empire: Malaria, Opium, and British Rule in India, 1756-1895 (Paul Winther); Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Sadiah Qureshi, 2011); Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687-1851 (Margaret Jacob and Larry Stewart)

Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World (Aro Velmet, 2022); Medicine and Empire, 1600-1960 (Pratik Chakrabarti, 2014); Colonial Geography: Race and Space in German East Africa, 1884-1905 (Matthew Unangst, 2022);

The Nature of German Imperialism: Conservation and the Politics of Wildlife in Colonial East Africa (Bernhard Gissibl, 2019); Curious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (Edited by Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall, 2019)

The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras (Chirstopher A. Loperena, 2022); Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World (Allison Bigelow, 2020); The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900 (Rebecca J.H. Woods); American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science (Megan Raby, 2017); Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism (Claudia Fonseca Alfaro, 2023); Unnsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India (Jessica Namakkal, 2021)

Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (James Sweet, 2011); A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America (Anya Zilberstein, 2016); Educating the Empire: American Teachers and Contested Colonization in the Philippines (Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, 2019); Soundings and Crossings: Doing Science at Sea, 1800-1970 (Edited by Anderson, Rozwadowski, et al, 2016)

Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania (Maile Arvin); Overcoming Niagara: Canals, Commerce, and Tourism in the Niagara-Great Lakes Borderland Region, 1792-1837 (Janet Dorothy Larkin, 2018); A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic (Michael A. Verney, 2022)

Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment (Daniela Cleichmar, 2012); Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India (Arnab Dey, 2022); Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World (Edited by Crawford and Gabriel, 2019)

Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment (Hi’ilei Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart, 2022); In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokkohama (Eric Tagliacozzo); Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (Urmi Engineer Willoughby, 2017); Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region (Edited by Hirsch, et al, 2022); Mining the Borderlands: Industry, Capital, and the Emergence of Engineers in the Southwest Territories, 1855-1910 (Sarah E.M. Grossman, 2018)

Knowing Manchuria: Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland (Ruth Rogaski); Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920 (Lenny A. Urena Valerio); Against the Map: The Politics of Geography in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Adam Sills, 2021)

Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History (Alan Mikhail, 2017); Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science (Jim Endersby); Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases (Edited by Edwin Martini, 2015)

Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World (Multiple authors, 2007); Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana (Peter Redfield); Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850 (Andrew Togert, 2015); Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of ‘Green’ Capitalism (Hannah Holleman, 2016); Postnormal Conservation: Botanic Gardens and the Reordering of Biodiversity Governance (Katja Grotzner Neves, 2019)

Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England (Anna K. Sagal, 2022); The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination (Harriet Ritvo); Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897-1975 (Michitake Aso); A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Kathryn Yusoff, 2018); Staple Security: Bread and Wheat in Egypt (Jessica Barnes, 2023); No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic (Keith Pluymers); Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects: British Malaya, 1768-1941 (Lynn Hollen Lees, 2017); Fish, Law, and Colonialism: The Legal Capture of Salmon in British Columbia (Douglas C. Harris, 2001); Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep Time (Edited by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, and Jakelin Troy)

Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (Joyce Chaplin, 2001); Mapping the Amazon: The Making and Unmaking of French India (Jessica Namakkal, 2021)

American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865 (Jeremy Zallen); Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire (Erik Linstrum, 2016); Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History: Contesting the Water (James Pettifer and Mirancda Vickers, 2021); Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity (Pratik Chakrabarti); Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (David Fedman)

Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination (Julie Cruikshank); The Fishmeal Revolution: The Industrialization of the Humboldt Current Ecosystem (Kristin A. Wintersteen, 2021); The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856 (Ralph O’Connor); An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876 (Benjamin Kingsbury, 2018); Geographies of City Science: Urban Life and Origin Debates in Late Victorian Dublin (Tanya O’Sullivan, 2019)

American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe (John Krige, 2006); Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Ann Laura Stoler, 2002); Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire (Faisal H. Husain, 2021)

The Sanitation of Brazil: Nation, State, and Public Health, 1889-1930 (Gilberto Hochman, 2016); The Imperial Security State: British Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building in Asia (James Hevia); Japan’s Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology (Annika A. Culver, 2022)

Moral Ecology of a Forest: The Nature Industry and Maya Post-Conservation (Jose E. Martinez, 2021); Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska (Jessica Bissette Perea, 2021); Citizens and Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire (Mashid Mayar); Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany (Andrew Zimmerman, 2001)

The Botany of Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century (Multiple authors, 2016); The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World (Katherine Johnston, 2022); Seeking the American Tropics: South Florida’s Early Naturalists (James A. Kushlan, 2020)

The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam (Laurence Monnais); Quinoa: Food Politics and Agrarian Life in the Andean Highlands (Linda J. Seligmann, 2023) ; Critical Animal Geographies: Politics, intersections and hierarchies in a multispecies world (Edited by Kathryn Gillespie and Rosemary-Claire Collard, 2017); Spawning Modern Fish: Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon (Heather Ann Swanson, 2022); Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East, 1840-1865 (Mark Bassin, 2000); The Usufructuary Ethos: Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century (Erin Drew, 2022)

Intimate Eating: Racialized Spaces and Radical Futures (Anita Mannur, 2022); On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World: A History of Lake Tanganyika, 1830-1890 (Philip Gooding, 2022); All Things Harmless, Useful, and Ornamental: Environmental Transformation Through Species Acclimitization, from Colonial Australia to the World (Pete Minard, 2019)

Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Setller Colonialism (Jarrod Hore, 2022); Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market (Meng Zhang, 2021); The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration (David A. Chang);

Deep Cut: Science, Power, and the Unbuilt Interoceanic Canal (Christine Keiner); Writing the New World: The Politics of Natural History in the Early Spanish Empire (Mauro Jose Caraccioli); Two Years below the Horn: Operation Tabarin, Field Science, and Antarctic Sovereignty, 1944-1946 (Andrew Taylor, 2017); Mapping Water in Dominica: Enslavement and Environment under Colonialism (Mark W. Hauser, 2021)

To Master the Boundless Sea: The US Navy, the Marine Environment, and the Cartography of Empire (Jason Smith, 2018); Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China (Ian Matthew Miller, 2020); Breeds of Empire: The ‘Invention’ of the Horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa 1500-1950 (Sandra Swart and Greg Bankoff, 2007)

Science on the Roof of the World: Empire and the Remaking of the Himalaya (Lachlan Fleetwood, 2022); Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai’i (John Ryan Fisher, 2017); Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819-1942 (Timothy P. Barnard, 2019)

An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation (Micha Rahder, 2020); Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta (Debjani Bhattacharyya, 2018);  Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880-1914 (Kristen Hussey, 2021)

Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950 (Jeannie N. Shinozuka); Coral Empire: Underwater Oceans, Colonial Tropics, Visual Modernity (Ann Elias, 2019); Hunting Africa: British Sport, African Knowledge and the Nature of Empire (Angela Thompsell, 2015)

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𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕞 𝕗𝕦𝕝𝕝 𝕞𝕠𝕠𝕟

In anticipation of the full moon, local residents and visitors of Greywood have begun to notice an alarming increase in creepy crawlies throughout town!

Where are these bugs and what can be done?

In Town, residents may be pleased or horrified to find that various insects have suddenly bloomed in population and are invading homes, businesses, public spaces and even your plumbing and vehicles. It seems nowhere is safe from these pesky bugs! There are occasional swarms in the sky of beetles and flies, earthworms are crawling out from the dirt and littering the sidewalk, even crickets and other insects seem to be persistently spawning inside nooks and cracks of homes and businesses despite best attempts to keep them out. Residents are encourage to contact local pest control services, witches for magical fixes, or attempt to clear out, relocate or eradicate the insects from their homes and businesses themselves! Whatever feels IC for your characters!

The Outskirts are experiencing the same, though perhaps more concerning are the sightings of something large moving through the woods - giant worms a few feet long burrowing beneath the earth and car sized beetles felling trees are flooding the news channels being broadcasted all over Greywood. If your character frequents the Outskirts or has made one of the rare homes there their own, be safe and mindful of this! Your wellbeing and safety is endangered even more than usual.

Deeper in the Greywood Forest, where the fog is thick and the town seems to melt away, residents should be extremely careful. There may be something even more dangerous lurking between the trees. Not only are the bugs still swarming en mass here, but giant bugs are more likely to be encountered, along with other giant magical insect creatures. Residents are encouraged to run if encountering one of these creatures, or for the brave and able, can attempt to encourage one of these insect beasts back into hiding or defend yourself by any means necessary.

Characters who are employed with the Greywood Fire Department, Sheriff's Department or Hospital may be alerted and contacted for assistance regarding managing the increase of bugs or aiding for any potential injuries caused.

How long will this last?

This takes place in-character from March 25, 2024 to April 8, 2024, after which we ask that no new threads be made but current and ongoing threads are okay to run until completion regardless of how long it takes. Participation is optional.

Can my character fight a giant bug?

Yes, they certainly can! Be sure to plot properly with your writing partner regarding action or fighting scenes and ensure any potential injuries, minor or severe are consented to with all parties and be sure to add any trigger warnings appropriate.

What kind of giant magical bugs are there?

Use your imagination! Feel free to have it simply be a giant version of a normal bug or use some kind of existing giant insect creature from fantastical mythology. If you have a more specific thing in mind and aren't sure, please contact the mods.

Is this part of a bigger plot?

This will be considered a stand-alone environmental world state change and not part of a larger plot arc.

[fawnanddusk]

A lot of my friends these days are hopping onto the bandwagon of wanting to make it illegal to own more than one house.

This is due to the housing market at large taking advantage of a lack of homes to jack up rent and housing costs in general, and I understand the desire and logic behind wanting more houses to be available to buyers and renters because of it. It makes no sense for so many houses to be left standing and gathering moss and mold and dust and sunken roofs and broken foundations because someone occasionally wants to rent it out as an Airbnb. It makes no sense for these places to be unavailable as homes because the owner who lives on the other side of the continent finds it more convenient to occasionally turn a profit than to be responsible for the upkeep of their renters' home.

But.

Then I think about my friend with a gift for hospitality who wants to run a little bed and breakfast and cook all the meals and be the best host, who would actually be great at it.

I think about my years-long dream to build affordable housing that's close to nature and agriculture and restrict the rentals to working guests, college students, and elderly tenants who don't need or want to buy a whole house in their current situation, but would benefit from living and breathing in a small-town environment.

I think about co-op living spaces and homeowners with boarders, either renting a room or living in an attached unit. I think about people with executive dysfunction, crippling phobias, physical disabilities, or anything else that would make it more convenient and more pleasant to rent from a handyman or managerially gifted homeowner than to buy and have to hire a new contractor for every little broken tile and pest control issue.

And I think about how banning multiple home ownership is insufficient when the alternative to individuals building thoughtfully and often artfully designed living spaces is large companies building en masse, as cheaply as humanly possible, designed by people who never cook in kitchens, have guests over, or do outdoor hobbies.

What we SHOULD be doing is offering legal protections for home ownership by people, and raising care requirements for housing industry businesses. One of which should be a mandate to be "on-call" more than 50% of the time. (My apartment complex could never qualify with their 9am-5pm office schedule. In terms of customer service, my friend would run circles around that of every apartment complex and rental management company I've ever encountered.)

I know that any solution that I come up with wouldn't be sufficient. I'm hardly an expert on housing industry law, statewide, nationwide, or worldwide. I just think it would be nice if we could lean on and build each other up, rather than being forced to take whatever scraps the industry is willing to offer.

[enkisstories]

That night, at the private hospital...

*shuffle, shuffle*

*shamble, shamble*

Dr. Gooler was still awake and therefore noticed the zombies, mindless automatons that were no longer housing soul. The souls had moved on, and the decaying flesh forms were controlled by their former pilots’ lingering emotions now.

The doctor should have called the police, or at the very least pest control, but he refrained from doing so. Either service would ask uncomfortable questions...

Lucy, too, was awake, and she didn’t have such reservations!

The agents Reed and Perkins arrived quickly, but then...

“Oh, will you look at the time!” said Daniel, turned around and left the lot again.

Richard growled at a zombie before he, too, sped back home.

Gavin was even worse than the other two: He didn’t just desert the victim of the zombie invasion, he marched up to him at the balcony and shook his hand before saying “Bye!” and leaving.

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DIY methods might seem like a cost-effective solution, but they often fail to address the root cause of the infestation. Professional pest control Wellington offers a comprehensive approach that includes inspection, treatment, and prevention. By enlisting experts, you ensure your property remains pest-free and safe for your family or employees.

Pest Control Franchise Opportunities: A Growing Industry

The pest control industry is booming, making it an attractive sector for entrepreneurs. Starting a pest control franchise allows individuals to capitalize on a proven business model with established branding, training, and operational support. It’s a lucrative option for those who want to enter a recession-proof industry, as pest management services remain in demand regardless of economic conditions.

When choosing a pest control franchise, it's essential to partner with a reputable company that provides ongoing training and access to modern pest management techniques. This ensures your franchise stays competitive and offers top-notch services to clients. Aspiring franchisees in New Zealand should consider the potential for growth in cities like Wellington, where the demand for pest control services is steadily rising.

Choosing the Right Pest Control Service in Wellington

When selecting a pest control provider, look for companies that prioritize safety and use eco-friendly products. This is especially important for homes with children and pets or businesses in the hospitality industry. The best pest control services in Wellington focus on eliminating the pests while preventing future infestations through customized solutions tailored to your property’s specific needs.

One such trusted provider is The Local Guys Pest Control, a company known for its professional approach and customer satisfaction. Their services range from routine inspections to comprehensive pest eradication plans, ensuring peace of mind for their clients.

Why Consider Pest Control Services Now?

Delaying pest control treatments can lead to a more severe infestation, resulting in higher costs and increased risks. For instance, a minor termite problem left untreated can escalate, causing thousands of dollars in structural damage. Similarly, ignoring rodent issues can result in contamination of food supplies and the spread of diseases like salmonella.

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The Ultimate Solution to Pest Control in Melbourne: Why You Need Professional Help

Melbourne’s climate, combined with its bustling urban environment, makes it an ideal breeding ground for a variety of pests. Whether you’re dealing with rodents, insects, or larger wildlife, pest control in Melbourne is essential to ensure your property stays protected from these unwelcome guests.

Pests don’t just invade homes—they can be a significant risk to your health, property, and business reputation. The good news is, 365 Pest Control offers comprehensive and affordable pest management services, keeping your home or workplace safe year-round. In this extended guide, we’ll cover the most effective pest control melbourne, how we can help, and why you should always trust the experts for long-term results.

Why Pest Control in Melbourne Is More Than Just a Necessity

Melbourne residents face a wide range of pest challenges. As a vibrant, fast-growing city with diverse weather conditions, the pests you deal with may vary season to season. From the dry heat of summer to the cooler months of winter, different pests emerge, each bringing its own set of problems.

Here’s why pest control in Melbourne is so important:

Health Hazards Many pests carry harmful bacteria, parasites, and viruses. For example, rodents are known to spread diseases like leptospirosis, salmonella, and hantavirus, while mosquitoes transmit conditions such as Ross River virus.

Property Damage The damage pests can do to your property is often invisible until it’s too late. Termites can silently eat away at your home’s timber structure, while rodents can chew through wires and insulation.

Commercial Impact Businesses in Melbourne, especially those in the food and hospitality sectors, cannot afford pest infestations. A single cockroach sighting or rodent issue can result in negative reviews, lost customers, and potential legal consequences.

Peace of Mind When you know your property is safe from pests, you can enjoy peace of mind. Pest control isn’t just about dealing with an infestation; it’s about prevention, ongoing monitoring, and long-term solutions.

Common Pests in Melbourne: A Look at the Top Offenders

Melbourne residents face various pests that can cause significant disruption. Let’s break down the most common pest problems you may encounter, and how 365 Pest Control tackles each one:

1. Termites – The Silent Destroyers

The Problem: Termites can go unnoticed for months, eating away at your home’s foundation. Left untreated, they can cause thousands of dollars in damage.

Our Solution: We offer comprehensive termite inspections, preventative treatments, and post-treatment monitoring. Our termite barriers and baiting systems are designed to provide long-lasting protection.

2. Rodents (Mice and Rats) – Unwelcome Guests

The Problem: Rodents not only carry diseases but can also cause extensive damage to your property by chewing through cables and insulation.

Our Solution: Our team specializes in rodent control through humane trapping, baiting, and sealing off entry points. We also offer ongoing monitoring to ensure your property stays rodent-free.

3. Cockroaches – Resilient and Disease-Carrying

The Problem: Cockroaches are known for carrying harmful pathogens that can spread illness. They are also incredibly difficult to eliminate without the proper approach.

Our Solution: We use gel baits and targeted treatments to eliminate cockroaches at all life stages. Our pest control experts focus on both immediate relief and long-term prevention.

4. Ants – A Persistent Nuisance

The Problem: Ants often form large colonies, quickly infiltrating kitchens, bathrooms, and even gardens. DIY solutions often fail to address the problem fully.

Our Solution: Our targeted treatments eliminate ant colonies at their source, preventing reinfestation and ensuring long-term control.

5. Spiders – Some Dangerous, Others Just Creepy

The Problem: While some spiders are harmless, others, like the redback, can pose serious health risks. Melbourne is home to many spider species, some of which can be hard to spot.

Our Solution: Our spider control service involves the removal of webs, identification of common spider species, and the use of eco-friendly products to control populations.

6. Bees and Wasps – Beneficial but Risky

The Problem: Bees and wasps are crucial for the environment, but their nests near human activity can be hazardous, especially for people with allergies.

Our Solution: We offer safe, professional removal and relocation of bees and wasp nests. Our eco-friendly approach ensures that the insects are moved safely without harm to the colony.

7. Bed Bugs – Tiny but Troublesome

The Problem: Bed bugs are nocturnal pests that bite and feed on human blood, causing discomfort, sleepless nights, and itchy welts.

Our Solution: We offer heat treatments and safe chemical applications that eliminate bed bugs at every stage of their life cycle. Our solutions are highly effective and non-invasive.

Why Choose 365 Pest Control for Your Melbourne Pest Issues?

While there are plenty of DIY methods available, professional pest control ensures the job is done thoroughly and safely. Here’s why 365 Pest Control is your best choice for handling pest infestations in Melbourne:

Expertise You Can Trust Our team is trained in the latest pest control techniques, and we stay up-to-date with the latest industry standards. Whether you’re dealing with termites, rodents, or cockroaches, we’ve seen it all and have a solution for every problem.

Customized Solutions for Every Pest Problem No two infestations are the same. That’s why we offer customized solutions tailored to your specific needs. After an initial inspection, we design a pest management plan that addresses your issue comprehensively.

Eco-Friendly Practices We prioritize safety and sustainability. Our methods are eco-friendly, ensuring that the treatment is effective but gentle on the environment. We use safe chemicals and non-toxic solutions that don’t pose a risk to your family or pets.

Long-Term Prevention We don’t just eliminate the pests; we take preventive measures to ensure they don’t come back. From sealing entry points to offering ongoing maintenance services, we help you create a pest-free environment long-term.

Affordable and Transparent Pricing We believe that quality pest control should be accessible to everyone. That’s why we offer competitive prices and transparent quotes, so you know exactly what you’re paying for—no hidden fees.

Emergency Services Available Pest infestations don’t wait for business hours. That’s why 365 Pest Control offers emergency pest control services, available 24/7 to tackle urgent pest problems quickly and efficiently.

How to Get Started with Pest Control in Melbourne

Taking the first step toward a pest-free home or business is easy. Simply contact us at 365 Pest Control, and we’ll schedule an inspection at your convenience. Our expert team will evaluate your property, identify any existing issues, and recommend the best treatment options.

If you’re dealing with an active infestation, don’t wait. Contact us now to schedule your emergency pest control service. Our fast response times and comprehensive solutions ensure that your property stays safe and pest-free.

Conclusion: A Pest-Free Melbourne Awaits

Pests are a fact of life, but they don’t have to take over your home or business. With 365 Pest Control, you can rest assured that your pest problems will be handled swiftly and professionally. Whether you’re facing a termite infestation or need a regular pest control plan, we’re here to help.

For the best pest control in Melbourne, contact 365 Pest Control today and experience the difference that expert pest management can make.

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Pest Control Franchise in Australia: A Growing Opportunity

A pest control franchise in Australia can be a rewarding venture, especially given the country's warm climate, which creates an ideal environment for pests such as termites, rodents, and ants. With urbanization expanding and more people seeking reliable pest management, investing in a pest control franchise presents a chance to serve communities by offering critical services that help protect properties and health.

The Benefits of Owning a Pest Control Franchise

Starting a pest control franchise Australia has its advantages. Franchisees benefit from a recognized brand name, which brings instant credibility to their business. Additionally, the franchise company usually provides comprehensive training in both pest control methods and business management. This training helps franchisees get up to speed quickly, ensuring they provide high-quality services to their customers.

Another significant benefit is the ongoing support from the franchisor. From marketing and customer acquisition to managing operational challenges, franchisees are never alone. The systems and tools provided help streamline processes, increase efficiency, and improve profitability. This support makes a pest control franchise one of the more stable business opportunities available, especially for first-time business owners.

Pest Control Inspection Brisbane: Keeping Your Property Safe

In cities like Brisbane, where humid conditions can foster pest activity, regular pest control inspections are essential. Pest control inspection Brisbane focuses on identifying potential pest problems before they escalate, saving property owners significant costs on repairs and extermination. Inspections typically cover common pests such as termites, cockroaches, rodents, and ants, as well as less common but equally problematic pests like bedbugs.

For those looking to protect their homes or businesses in Brisbane, regular pest inspections can make all the difference. During an inspection, professionals assess the property for signs of infestation, moisture problems, and conditions that might attract pests. This proactive approach ensures that pest problems are addressed early, reducing the need for costly treatments later on.

A professional pest control inspection in Brisbane involves not only thorough checks for pests but also recommendations for prevention. Experts can provide advice on how to make your property less hospitable to pests, such as sealing cracks, improving ventilation, and eliminating standing water. For those in Brisbane looking for the best in pest control, The Local Guys Pest Control offers comprehensive services, including detailed pest inspections to keep homes and businesses pest-free.

Why Choose The Local Guys Pest Control

For anyone looking for reliable and professional pest control services in Brisbane or other parts of Australia, The Local Guys Pest Control stands out. With their expertise and focus on environmentally friendly pest control methods, they are well-equipped to tackle any pest issue. Whether you are dealing with termites, rodents, or cockroaches, The Local Guys Pest Control offers tailored solutions that suit the specific needs of your property.

Their team of experienced pest control professionals ensures that every inspection and treatment is thorough, effective, and safe for the environment. From the first inspection to ongoing treatment plans, The Local Guys Pest Control is dedicated to providing top-notch service that customers can rely on.