They use smell to tell other ants where the food is.
它们用嗅觉告诉其他蚂蚁食物在哪里。
So they picked up cousin Tyrant and joined a line of other ants.
所有他们就去接堂兄泰伦，并加入了其他蚂蚁的行列。
Other ants sniff the chemical trail and follow it toward that same food source.
其他蚂蚁闻到这种气味，一路找下去就可以发现同一食物源。
If an ant is knocked unconscious, other ants leave it alone until it wakes up.
如果一只蚂蚁被弄成晕迷状态，其他的蚂蚁会不管它，直到它自己醒来。
And she discovered that about 50 percent of the other ants do not do any work at all.
她还发现，另有大约百分之五十的蚂蚁根本不会做任何工作。
Ants leave small chemical trails on the ground in order to mark paths for other ants to follow.
蚂蚁为了让其它的同伴能够追踪到它们总会在自己走过的路上留下化学物质作为标记。
Then I watched one of the ants which had touched the other to see if it touched still other ants.
我观察互相碰触的蚂蚁中的一只，看他是否还会继续碰触其他的蚂蚁。
When the scientists used the "I'm dead" chemical, other ants quickly hauled the treated pupae away.
当科学家用这个”我已经死亡”的化学成分时，其它的蚂蚁会快速地把这个蛹拖走。
"When these ants bring food back to the nest, they lay a pheromone trail that tells other ants to go get more food," Harper explains.
“当这些蚂蚁将食物带到蚁巢时，它们会在途中留下追踪信息素，这样其它蚂蚁也能去找到更多的食物”，哈普尔解释道。
Once the ants start foraging and bringing back food, other ants join the effort, depending on the rate at which they encounter returning foragers.
一旦觅食蚁开始觅食并准备把食物带回来，其它的工蚁便开始加入，而这都依赖回程觅食蚁与其它蚂蚁的接触频率。
Under a large stone, Jean Jacque found a few workers of Cerapachys, an early lineage of army ants that specialize in eating the young of other ants.
杰·雅克则在一块大石头下面发现了一些工蚁，粗角蚁属的，这是行军蚁中的早期谱系，专门吃其它蚁种的幼蚁。
They spread rapidly in Florida, Louisiana, and other southern states, driving out other ants and disrupting the landscape with prolific, aggressive colonies.
火蚁在佛罗里达、路易斯安那和其他南部州快速蔓延，它们富有进攻性，建立了众多的巢穴，破坏了当地的景观。
When other ants come to an intersection, they always follow the path with the strongest scent, which is the most recent path that leads away from the intersection point.
当其它的蚂蚁来到十字路口，它们只会跟着气味强烈的那条路走，也就是那条最新标记出来的穿过十字路口的路。
Given the description of Carl's path and when the other ants start the path, you are to determine how long it takes the entire set of ants to finish burrowing back into the ground.
已经给出的是卡尔的路径和其它蚂蚁出洞的时刻。你需要算出整个蚁群从第一只出来到全部回洞用了多长时间。
In addition to barging ants, other species can cause different kinds of damage.
除了横冲直撞的蚂蚁，其他物种也会造成不同种类的伤害。
Farmer ants secrete antibiotics to control other fungi that might act as "weeds", and spread waste to fertilise the crop.
农民蚂蚁分泌抗生素来控制其他可能充当“杂草”的真菌，并传播排泄物来给作物施肥。
Merian was correct about the giant bird-eating spiders, ants building bridges with their bodies and other details.
梅里安对巨型食鸟蜘蛛、蚂蚁用身体搭建桥梁以及其他细节的看法是正确的。
Many ants are small and forage primarily in the layer of leaves and other debris on the ground.
许多蚂蚁很小，主要在地面的树叶和其他碎屑中觅食。
Why This works: Many plants - including the ones listed - give off a strong scent to repel ants and other insects in the wild, and it works just as well in your home.
为何如此：许多的植物——包括我上面列的单子——可以发出强烈的令蚂蚁和其它野外的昆虫害怕的气味，这样可以击退它们，不过对你的家庭却无害。
The purposeful collective activity of ants and other social insects does, indeed, look intelligent on the surface.
蚂蚁和其他群居性昆虫有目的的集体活动表面上看起来确实是有智慧的。
In the garden plant perennials such as bee balm, catmint, rosemary and other "strong-smelling" herbs thought to deter ants and other pests.
种一些多年生植物如香蜂草，猫薄荷草，迷迭香和其他“有强烈气味的”草，以驱赶蚂蚁和其他害虫。
The weaver ants, it turns out, are very thorough about hunting down and eating fruit flies, as well as a host of other pests.
调查结果显示，编织蚁对于捕获和消灭果蝇以及很多其他的害虫都有非常彻底的效果。
Other companies also have profited by imitating ants.
其他的许多公司在模仿蚂蚁时也都受益匪浅。
When people find out that “I study ants, bees and other crawly things, the first thing they ask is do I know how to kill them.”
当人们得知“我研究蚂蚁、蜜蜂，以及其他令人毛骨悚然的生物时，他们的第一反应是问我如何杀死它们”。
A collection of beautifully preserved bees, ants, spiders and other small prehistoric creatures that lived 50 million years ago have been unearthed in a huge amber deposit in India.
在印度一个大的琥珀矿床发掘出了一堆琥珀，完好地保存着生活在5千万年前的蜜蜂、蚂蚁、蜘蛛和其它史前小动物。
The new model additionally helps to explain the gliding technique of many other species, including certain mammals, frogs, lizards, snakes, ants, fish and squid.
这个新的模型也解释了其他种类动物的滑翔技术，包括哺乳动物，青蛙，蜥蜴，蛇，蚂蚁，鱼和鱿鱼。
How else could ants organize highways, build elaborate nests, stage epic raids, and do all the other things ants do?
蚂蚁是如何建立起高速公路，建造自己精心设计的巢穴并上演一出出史诗般的猎杀行动，如此种种的所有事情？
When the researchers used a mirror to make it look like the sun was on the other side of the sky, the beleaguered backward ants would turn tail for the opposite direction.
当研究人员用镜子来让它看起来像是太阳在天空的另一边时，被围困的落后的蚂蚁会向相反的方向驶去。
When the researchers used a mirror to make it look like the sun was on the other side of the sky, the beleaguered backward ants would turn tail for the opposite direction.
当研究人员用镜子来让它看起来像是太阳在天空的另一边时，被围困的落后的蚂蚁会向相反的方向驶去。
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