These are some more harvester ants in a park near his lab.

在他的实验室附近的一个公园里，有更多的收获蚁。

But little is known about which animals scavenge on army ant leavings.

但人们对哪些动物以军蚁的残骸为食却知之甚少。

Ants do all this inside enormous colonies pampered by thousands of older sisters.

蚂蚁在成千上万的姐姐的宠爱下，在巨大的蚁群里进行这一切。

When you came to me, I was merely a sentient colony of ants.

咪咪豆，听我说，你来找我时，我只是一个有感觉力的蚁群。

Like the tourers, harvester ants depend upon the power of numbers to survive.

和我们的商队队员一样收获蚁的生存也靠数量。

As an analogy, if bacteria were ants, then a microcolony would be a tiny group of ants, each doing it's own thing, whereas a biofilm would be an ant farm with complex tunnels and rooms, and each ant carrying out a specialized task.

打个比，细菌是蚂蚁的话，菌落就相当于分工明的蚁群，而生物膜就相当于一个有着复和小房子的蚂蚁房，其中的每只蚂蚁都有自己特殊的任务。

That meant yet more empty months, in which Abigail was forced to sit in the ant chamber of history, missing out on the action while her husband repeatedly forgot to write.

这意味着更多空虚的月份，阿比盖尔被迫坐在历史的蚁室里，错过了行动，而她的丈夫却一再忘记写信。

Like, how a queen ant's nutrition and pheromones can chemically alter an ant embryo to either produce a soldier or worker ant based on what's needed for the colony.

比，蚁后的营养和信息素是何过化学作用改变蚂蚁胚胎，使其根据蚁群的需要产生兵蚁或工蚁。

So just like a magnitude 7 earthquake is 10 times as powerful as a magnitude 6, a bullet ant's sting causes 100 times as much pain as a honeybee.

就像7级地震的威力是6级地震的10倍一样，子弹蚁叮咬的疼痛程度是蜜蜂的100倍。

These four types of ants and their different roles demonstrate the clear social division of labors in an ant colony and the ants' highly social nature.

这四种品级的蚂蚁及其不同的角色展示了蚁群中明的社会分工和蚂蚁高度社会化的本质。

And a merry time they all had scrambling after the eggs which their mother sent rolling down the sides of the ant-hill.

他们都高兴地争夺着妈妈从蚁丘边上滚下来的蚁蛋。

Having secured a lifetime supply of sperm from her departed mate, our new queen must now single-handedly start an entire colony.

从她死去的配偶那里获得了一生的精子供应后，这位新蚁后现在必须单枪匹马地建立完整的蚁群。

That ant only reaches about 24 inches per second, or two thirds of the silver ant's max.

箭蚁的速度只有每秒24英寸，也就是银蚁最高速度的三分之二。

Our colony retaliates, but new waves of raiders from even further away overwhelm the workers.

我们的蚁群会进行报复，但来自更远处的几波袭击最终令工蚁们无力招架。

Certain species of the harvester ants build enormous underground nest with diameters that can reach from 7 to 10 yards long by over 6 feet deep.

有些种类的收获蚁能建造庞大的地下巢穴直径能达到七到十码深达六英尺。

Pfeffer says they're thus faster than a closely related ant species called Cataglyphis fortis, which has longer legs but a less impressive airborne phase.

费弗尔表示，它们因此比一种名为箭蚁的近亲物种的速度更快，箭蚁腿更长，但空中飞行情况却不尽人意。

But remember that a froghopper can accelerate at 550 g's, and the mandibles of the snap-jaw ants pull over 100,000 g's, that's insane.

但是请记住，一只沫蝉可以在 550 个 G 的加速度下加速，而陷阱颚蚁的下颚可以拉动超过 100，000 个 G，这太疯狂了。

I conceived a child with Million Ants and it died inside me because it was half a million ants and half collapsing star!

我怀上了百万蚁人的孩子，结胎死腹中，因为胎儿一半是百万蚂蚁，一半是坍缩星！

In the surrounding area, dozens of neighboring queens are building their own ant armies.

在周边地区，数十个邻近的蚁后也在建立自己的蚁群。

Like this one, using its jaw snap to escape from the pit of an antlion.

就像这只，用它的下巴弹击从蚁狮的坑里逃脱。