List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction Laura Hollsten, Suvi Rytty, Otto Latva, Sanna Lillbroända-Annala and Tuomas Räsänen Part 1: Ethics 1 Becoming Aware of Insects: Dangers and Endangerments in the Anthropocene Michaela Fenske 2 Deconstructing Wasp Aggression: Proposing a Critically Anthropomorphic Narrative of Shared Vulnerability Minna Santaoja Part 2: Insects and Human Gaze 3 Fly Eyes and Insect Vision at the Turn of the 20th Century: from Scientific Curiosity to Compound Menace Concepción Cortés Zulueta 4 Encounters with the Insect World: Care and Human - Insect Relationships in Wildlife Documentaries Heidi Mikkola Part 3: Science and Knowledge 5 Wild Spiders in Fragile Knowledge Networks: Spiders in Medicine, Natural History, and Silk Production in Eighteenth-Century Europe Laura Hollsten 6 Valuing Birds and Insects in America, c. 1815-1920: a Multispecies Perspective Sophie FitzMaurice 7 From Harmless Nuisance to Frightening Enemy: the Perceptions of Ticks in Finland before the Beginning of the Tick Hysteria in the 1990s Otto Latva 8 Anopheline Mobilities and More-Than-Mosquito Biopolitics in Making Biotechnology Marianne Mäkelin PART 4: Bodies at Risk 9 Clandestine Agents in Meadows: Ticks, Cattle and Redwater Fever in Finland, 1860s-1930s Taina Syrjämaa 10 Social Construction of Tick-Borne Diseases from the 1950s to the Twenty-First Century: a View From the History of Medicine Suvi Rytty 11 Tick Smart: Practices and Materializations in Human - Tick Entanglements Sanna Lillbroända-Annala PART 5: Multispecies Networks 12 Fleas, Knowledge-Making, and the Epidemiology of Plague in British India: Perspectives from the Bombay Epidemic, 1905-1906 Emily Webster 13 Epidemic Encounters: Mingling with Mosquitoes in Réunion and Mauritius Karine Aasgaard Jansen 14 Humans, Ticks, and the Conflict over the Cervids Heta Lähdesmäki and Tuomas Räsänen Index.