From now on, every spring, the colony will produce fertile alate males and females.

从现在开始，每年春天，个蚁群会繁殖出雄性和雌性有翅生殖蚁。

After heavy rainfalls, these alates take to the skies, and spread their queen's genes up to a couple hundred meters downwind.

大，些有翅生殖蚁飞上天空，把它们蚁的基因顺风传播几百米远。

This is the nuptial flight, when thousands of reproduction-capable male and female ants, called alates, take wing for the first and last time.

有翅生殖蚁是有繁殖能力的雄性和雌性蚂蚁的统称，对成千上万有翅生殖蚁来说，是第一次、也是最的起飞。

After heavy rainfalls, these alates take to the skies, and spread their queen’s genes up to a couple hundred meters downwind.

大过， 些有翼昆虫飞上天空，将蜂的基因传播到顺风几百米的地方。