A fully grown ladybug can eat nearly 500 aphids a day.

一只长大瓢每掉五百只。

Imagine you're an aphid, a tiny insect that sucks plant sap for a living.

想象你是一只——一种以吸食植物汁液为生小昆。

You can't be too young if you're an aphid, some of them are born pregnant.

如果你是，再早繁衍都不算早，它们有些刚出生就已经怀孕了。

Right now, the aphids have the upper hand.

现在 他眼里只有瓢。

Meanwhile, among aphids, losses are not a problem.

然而对于来说损失根不是问题。

When you do see pests like aphids, wash them away.

当你看到诸如之类害时，把它们洗掉。

You want to wash aphids off with a strong current of water.

你想用一股强水流把冲走。

But some aphids, katydids, lizards, geckos, and snakes only ever reproduce via parthenogenesis.

而有些、蝈蝈、蜥蜴、壁虎、蛇等只进行孤雌生殖。

Female aphids can make little, tiny clones of themselves without ever mating.

雌不用交配就复制很小很小自己。

But how do you deal with the aphids on tomato plants?

但是如何处理番茄植株上呢？

By cloning themselves with 'virgin births' and reproducing sexually, aphids maximise their chances of survival.

通过" 单性生殖" 无性繁殖以及有性繁殖，使它们生存机会最大化。

Herding aphids is pretty much the same.

放牧基也是一样。

Ants keep predatory insects away from where their aphids feed; Gmail keeps the spammers out of our inboxes.

蚂蚁赶走进食之处捕食性昆；谷歌邮箱也帮助我们在收件前远离那些垃圾邮件制造者。

See if you can hear the strategy American aphids use to reproduce.

看看你不听懂美国繁殖策略。

Insects in the Hemiptera order have piercing-sucking mouthparts and include bed bugs, cicadas, aphids, and leafhoppers.

半翅类昆就具有这样刺吸式口器，其中包括臭、蝉、、叶蝉。

Well, Clem says they might be pursuing the aphids they eat southward...or maybe they're following the blooms of nectar-rich flowers.

Clem 说它们可在追随在南方，或者追赶富有花蜜丰富植物花期。

One is to spray soapy water onto soft-bodied insects like aphids, spider mites, thrips and whiteflies.

一种是向、蜘蛛螨、蓟马和粉虱等软体昆喷洒肥皂水。

Clusters of tiny insects called aphides were to be found on the underside of the leaves.

结果在树叶背面找到成串叫作小子。

The young aphids that hatch are all female.

孵化出来幼都是雌性。

In the spring, female aphids lay eggs which hatch - break open allowing the young to come out.

在春，雌性会产卵，卵会孵化 —— 破壳让幼出来。