Vertebraticide

Vertebraticide is the planned and intentional killing of vertebrates due to being "pests." It is a direct reference to "pesticides." In this situation, vertebrates are deemed the pest and macrovolutes have made up multiple methods to take out unwanted vertebrates of many types.
Sophodra is highly against vertebraticide and would rather do "Live catch," meaning she would rather hand catch and handle the vertebrates. She actively works against killing vertebrates.
=== Fungi and Bacteria ===
Proliferating spores and bacteria in the environment is a way to handle some vertebrates. The macrovolutes send out a bunch of spores of flesh-eating fungi and bacteria. These intercept a vertebrate and can easily end its life. Another thing to note is that the bacteria is also airborne even out of the spore stage, so there is a higher chance of infection.
=== UV Lighting ===
Intense UV lighting is another method used for vertebraticide. Huge amounts of UV radiation can lead to things like sunburn and even in extreme circumstances, melanoma.
=== Countering Vertebraticide ===
Some vertebrates have actually found ways around what we know as vertebraticide. Chickens and various other highly mutated vertebrates have developed an immunity to these methods and are harder to catch and or kill. Humans have developed suits to handle the multiple methods to walk around. 
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