The nest's population dwindles, and eventually, they're taken over by a neighboring colony.

蚁巢蚂蚁的数量逐，最终被邻近蚁群占领。

And, buried in the safety of the nest, those seeds will germinate.

同时，这些种子被保存在了安全的蚁巢里，它们将会发芽。

A keen sense of smell enables her to detect the presence of ants and termites in their nests beneath the sand.

穿山甲凭借敏锐的嗅觉，能够发现黄沙下面的蚁巢，挖掘蚂蚁和白蚁。

Every day, younger ants feed the queen and tend to the brood, while older workers forage for food and defend the nest.

天，年轻的蚂蚁负责喂养蚁后并照顾幼蚁，而年长的工蚁负责寻找食物并保卫蚁巢。

In Indian jumping ants, when a queen dies, workers in the nest duel for the right to lay eggs.

在印度跳蚁中，当蚁后死去时，蚁巢中的工蚁会为争夺产卵权而展开决斗。

The Formics, with their hive-like structure, had necessitated an unconventional approach, one that Ender, with his prodigious intuition, had provided.

蚁巢具有蜂巢般的，要一种非常规的方法，而安德以其惊人的直觉提供了这种方法。

We know there's around a hundred thousand in every nest, and scientists counted the number of journeys they made every day carrying pieces of leaf.

个蚁巢里大约有10万只蚂蚁科学家们计算出它们天运输叶子的次数。

Inside the leafcutter nest, they're undercover: closely mimicking the ants' signature scent, they frolic and feed in the fungal gardens, mostly undetected.

在切叶蚁巢内，它们是卧底：模仿蚂蚁的标志性气味，它们在真菌花园里嬉戏和觅食，大部分时间未被发现。

At many of the other sites, ant numbers were much reduced, with areas that once sported dozens of nests over hundreds of hectares reduced to just one or two colonies covering much smaller tracts of land.

而在其他的据点，蚂蚁数量，原来几百公顷的面积上有几十个蚁巢，而现在一片小面积土地上只有一两个聚居群。