ABSTRACT In the early Twentieth Century officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s experiment station in Honolulu and the territorial government’s Board of Commissioners of Agriculture and Forestry contemplated the agricultural tasks that they faced, they sought nothing less than wholesale biological management of the islands. Seed and plant introductions represented efforts to oversee botanical possibility, while quarantine and inspection regimes sought to contain the threat of issnvasive species. When unwanted insect travelers thwarted human oversight, the territorial government dispatched entomologists to distant places, particularly in other colonial regions of the world, to gather parasites that might combat insect pests. The different efforts to manage the island ecosystem in Hawai‘i reflected not just the biological basis of territorial rule, but also its embeddedness in intra-imperial, inter-imperial, and international relationships.

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美国帝国的植物、昆虫和生物管理：20 世纪早期夏威夷的热带农业

摘要 20 世纪初，美国农业部檀香山试验站和领土政府农林委员会的官员考虑了他们面临的农业任务，他们寻求的只是对岛屿进行批发生物管理。种子和植物引进代表了监督植物可能性的努力，而检疫和检查制度则试图遏制入侵物种的威胁。当不受欢迎的昆虫旅行者阻挠人类监督时，领土政府派遣昆虫学家到遥远的地方，特别是在世界其他殖民地地区，收集可能对抗害虫的寄生虫。