Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphids for the honeydew they produce when they feed, so Google farms us for the data that our digital lives yield.

如同在蚂蚁圈养一些被称为蚜虫的虫子以获得它们所产出的蜜汁一样，谷歌圈养我们也是为了获取我们数字生活所产出的数据。

Ants keep predatory insects away from where their aphids feed; Gmail keeps the spammers out of our inboxes.

蚂蚁赶走蚜虫进食之处的捕食性昆虫；谷歌邮箱也帮助我们在收件前远离那些垃圾邮件制造者。

But some aphids, katydids, lizards, geckos, and snakes only ever reproduce via parthenogenesis.

而有些蚜虫、蝈蝈、蜥蜴、壁虎、蛇等只进行孤雌生殖。

There is some disadvantage for the adult. It slows it down.

“这对成年蚜虫来说有些不利。因为幼虫会减慢它们的速度。”

Meanwhile, among aphids, losses are not a problem.

然而对于蚜虫来说损失根本不是问题。

When you do see pests like aphids, wash them away.

当你看到诸如蚜虫之类的害虫时，把它们洗掉。

You can't be too young if you're an aphid, some of them are born pregnant.

如果你是蚜虫，再早繁衍都不算早，它们有些刚出生就已经怀孕了。

For Dr Johnson believes he has shown that just such an internet, with fungal hyphae standing in for local Wi-Fi, alerts beanstalks to danger if one of their neighbours is attacked by aphids.

约翰逊博士认为，他已经很明白地展示出，正是这样一个地下网络，凭借丝所起到的局部无线网络（Wi-Fi）作用，在邻近植物遭蚜虫进犯时，可以向其它豆茎发出警报，警惕邻近的危险。

For instance, if we counted all the aphids, on all the soybean plants, just on North American farms, we would find as many as a quadrillion aphids.

例如，如果我们将它们全部计算在内所有大豆植物上的蚜虫，仅在北美农场，我们会发现大约一千万亿只蚜虫。

The aphids aren't necessarily growing in number, despite their elongated season, but their earlier appearances means they are targeting plants that are younger and more vulnerable.

尽管蚜虫的节延长了，但它们的数量并不一定增加，但它们更早出现意味着它们的目标是那些更年轻、更脆弱的植物。

So, you know, common pests in urban farms are aphids and spider mites, but they do a lot of work to help control that issue.

城市农场常见的害虫是蚜虫和蜘蛛螨，但瓢虫做了很多工作来帮助控制这个问题。

If aphids, thrips or other insects invade your rose bushes, you may be able to force them off with just a strong spray of water.

如果蚜虫，牧草虫或其他昆虫侵入玫瑰花丛，可以喷水赶走它们。

That could be valuable in parts of viticulture's New World, such as Australia, where vines remain ungrafted and phylloxera is still a problem.

这在葡萄栽植新世界的部分地区可能很有价值，比如澳大利亚，在这些地方，葡萄藤仍是非嫁接的，并且根瘤蚜虫仍是一个问题。

From Britain, this theory went, phylloxera reached the European mainland via the south of France, the first place where it devastated vineyards.

该理论认为，根瘤蚜虫从英国经法国南部传入欧洲大陆。它首先是破坏了法国的葡萄园。

You see valleys that look like dried up riverbeds, dead patches like deserts and giant craters left behind by voracious aphids.

你看到许多像河床干涸的山谷、像沙漠一样的死地，以及飢饿蚜虫所遗留的巨大陨石坑。

Well, Clem says they might be pursuing the aphids they eat southward...or maybe they're following the blooms of nectar-rich flowers.

Clem 说它们可能在追随在南方吃的蚜虫，或者追赶富有花蜜丰富的植物的花期。

Gardeners around the world will be upset to hear that - those young aphids just love eating tomato plants!

全世界的园艺者们听到这个会很郁闷的 —— 那些小蚜虫喜欢吃番茄植物。

The aphids feed from plants and produce a sweet honeydew, which they trade with the ants for protection.

蚜虫以植物为食，并产生甜蜜的甘露，然后与蚂蚁交易以保护它们。

Clusters of tiny insects called aphids were to be found on the underside of the leaves.

结果在树叶背面找到成串的叫作蚜虫的小虫子。

Nineteenth-century agronomists rapidly divined that phylloxera had come from North America.

19世纪的农学家迅速推断称，根瘤蚜虫来自北美。