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

它作用就像驱虫剂，可以驱赶蚊子、苍蝇、白蚁和蟑螂。

They regulate insects.They eat ants and termites.

它们能够对昆虫起到监管作用。它们吃蚂蚁和白蚁。

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，也会是白蚁和其他分解者。

There what is, termites on a desert?

那是什么，沙漠里白蚁吗？

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.

虽然他们视力和听力都很差，他们强烈嗅觉和弹性舌头使他们能吃到丰盛蚂蚁和白蚁。

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.

属于这一大类包括社会性昆虫——蜜蜂、蚂蚁、白蚁——对所有这些动物而言，巢穴卫生极度重要，因此，这些动物对于尸体就是采取严格下葬行为。

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.

我可以看到黑色手拿起草根把它们戳进白蚁丘，然后把草根拔出来，上面爬满了白蚁。

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

鲁道夫说，它们能听到白蚁在墙上吃东西。

Similar to ants, bees, and termites, they build giant nests.

跟蚂蚁、蜜蜂以及白蚁相似，他们建造巨大巢穴。

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

西孟加拉邦是沙阿斥责“白蚁”地方之一。

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

从白蚁到角马再到人类，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.

白蚁有助于分解植物，因此对地下碳储存至关重要。

At least the termites weren't my fault.

至少入侵白蚁不是我错。

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

就重量而言，白蚁是你能找到最富含蛋白质食物。

It's a little bit like termites, really.

感觉有点像白蚁，真。

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

在 31.7 万公顷土地上也发现了白蚁群。

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

一些热带白蚁使用培养真菌来预先消化食物，而不是微生物。

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.

当他走开时候，我看到是灰胡子大卫，这可能是他没有逃跑原因，我走到石堆旁边，发现周围散落着草，表面有白蚁。

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白蚁，或是某些章鱼，把自己关在捡来椰子壳里，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，但那里黑猩猩已经会用细长草叶从蚁丘中捕捞白蚁了。