It works like a bug repellent, keeping mosquitoes, flies, termites, and roaches away.

它的作用就像驱虫剂，可以驱赶蚊子、苍蝇、和蟑螂。

They regulate insects.They eat ants and termites.

它们能够对昆虫起到监管作用。它们蚂和。

In the countryside, many wood structures will be destroyed within a few decades, if not by fire, then by termites and other decomposers.

在农村，许多木结构将在几十年内被破坏，就算不是火灾，也会是和其他分解者。

There what is, termites on a desert?

那是什么，沙漠里的吗？

Though they have poor eyesight and hearing, their strong sense of smell and elastic tongue allows them to catch a meal of mercy ants and termites.

虽然他们的视力和听力都很差，他们强烈的嗅觉和弹性的舌头使他们能到丰盛的蚂和。

This group includes things like the social insects — bees and ants and termites — and for all of these animals, colony hygiene is of critical importance, and so as a result these animals display rigorous undertaking behaviors in response to corpses.

属于这一类的包括社会性昆虫——蜜蜂、蚂、——对所有这些动物而言，巢穴的卫生极度重要，因此，这些动物对于尸体的反应就是采取严格的下葬行为。

I could see this black hand picking grass stems and pushing them down into the termite mound and pulling them out with termites clinging on with their jaws.

我可以看到黑色的手拿起草根把它们戳进丘，然后把草根拔出来，面爬满了。

They can hear termites eating in the wall, Rudolph says.

鲁道夫说，它们能听到在墙西。

West Bengal is one of the places where Mr Shah has railed against termites.

西孟加拉邦是沙阿斥责“”的地方之一。

And many, from termites to wildebeest to humans, added mobile homes for billions of microbes.

从到角马再到人类，许多微生物为数十亿微生物增加了移动家园。

Termites help decompose plants and, as a result, are vital for storing carbon underground.

有助于分解植物，因此对地下碳储存至关重要。

At least the termites weren't my fault.

至少入侵的不是我的错。

By weight, termites are the most protein-rich food that you can find.

就重量而言，是你能找到的最富含蛋质的食物。

It's a little bit like termites, really.

感觉有点像，真的。

Termite swarms have also been detected in 317,000 hectares of land.

在 31.7 万公顷的土地也发现了群。

Some tropical termites use cultivated fungi to predigest food rather than microorganisms.

一些热带使用培养的真菌来预先消化食物，而不是微生物。

Fennec foxes use their large, swiveling ears to rapidly home in on activity beneath Sahara sands, while bat-eared foxes can pick up savanna sounds as slight as termites crawling and munching on grasses.

耳廓狐用它们旋转的耳朵迅速定位撒哈拉沙漠下的活动，而蝠耳狐可以捕捉到热带草原爬行嚼草的声音。

When he walked away, I saw it was David Greybeard, which is probably why he hadn't run away, and I went over to the heap, and there were grasses lying around and termites kind of on the surface.

当他走开的时候，我看到是灰胡子卫，这可能是他没有逃跑的原因，我走到石堆旁边，发现周围散落着草，表面有。

Like primates that use sticks to fish for termites in trees, or some octopuses, which assemble collected coconut shells around themselves as a sort of portable armor to hide from enemies.

就像灵长类动物用树枝来钓鱼或是抓树里的，或是某些章鱼，把自己关在捡来的椰子壳里，当作是携带式装甲来躲避天敌那样。

At that point, it was thought only humans had the capacity to create and use tools, but the chimpanzees were using slim blades of grass to fish termites from their mounds.

当时，人们认为只有人类会创造和使用工具，但那里的黑猩猩已经会用细长的草叶从丘中捕捞了。