在同一幅插图中，梅里安首次描绘了切叶蚁。
In the same plate, Merian depicted and described leaf-cutter ants for the first time.
在同一幅画中，她错误地把军队和切叶蚁归为一类了。
In the same drawing, she incorrectly lumped together army and leaf-cutter ants.
知道吗？这可不是位普通的妇。她是一只切叶蚁。
You see, this is no ordinary farmer. She is a leaf cutter ant.
在2008年3月，舒尔茨就向我们揭示了切叶蚁还会利用生产抗生素的细菌来为它们的农场除虫。
In March 2008, Schultz showed that leafcutters also use antibiotic-producing microbes to keep their gardens pest-free.
他和库里都注意到了切叶蚁在以真菌为食的蚂蚁中是一个独特而又复杂的种类，但是它们才在1000年前或者其他以真菌为食的生物之后才开始进化。
He and Currie both noted that leafcutters are uniquely complex among fungus-growing ants, but evolved just 10 million years ago, or 40 million years after other fungus growers.
斯科菲尔德博士和他的研究小组用高清显微镜来对比研究室里培养的切叶蚁蚁蛹的牙齿和野外的切叶蚁已经磨损的牙齿。 他们发现蚁蛹的锯片比老龄切叶蚁的锯片锋利340倍。
Dr Schofield and his team used hi-tech microscopes to compare the pristine teeth of laboratory-reared pupae with the worn teeth of the wild forager ants.
俄勒冈大学和俄勒冈州立大学的研究人员对中美洲的切叶蚁进行了研究，他们发现，蚁群中的年轻和精力充沛的成员被委派去做最艰难的工作——将蚁群收集起来的叶片切成碎片。这些身强力壮的切叶蚁用它们锐利的牙齿做起这种工作来很有效率，但是随着年龄的增长，它们的牙齿也会变得破旧而迟钝。
A study of Central American leaf-cutter ants has shown that the younger and more vigorous members of the colony are given the toughest job of cutting through the leaves they harvest.
俄勒冈大学和俄勒冈州立大学的研究人员对中美洲的切叶蚁进行了研究，他们发现，蚁群中的年轻和精力充沛的成员被委派去做最艰难的工作——将蚁群收集起来的叶片切成碎片。这些身强力壮的切叶蚁用它们锐利的牙齿做起这种工作来很有效率，但是随着年龄的增长，它们的牙齿也会变得破旧而迟钝。
A study of Central American leaf-cutter ants has shown that the younger and more vigorous members of the colony are given the toughest job of cutting through the leaves they harvest.
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