仔细观察昆虫的世界，你会发现许多不可思议的事。
Take a close look at the world of insects (昆虫) and you will discover many unbelievable things.
但正如丹和耶尔在科学一刻里所讨论的，没有昆虫的世界并没有我们想象中般美好。
But as Don and Yael discuss in this Moment of Science, a world without them might not be as nice as we might think.
日本艺术家矶部胜士郎和水野亮延续日本的极致风格，一个用铅笔勾勒昆虫的世界，一个用圆珠笔营造异形的氛围。
The Japanese artists ISOBE Katsushiro and MIZUNO Ryo continue to follow Japanese beau ideal style, one draws the insect world with his pencils, another builds the weird atmosphere with his ball pens.
蚂蚁是昆虫世界的超级英雄。
然而，尽管全世界有20亿人已经在用昆虫来补充他们的饮食，消费者的厌恶仍然是许多西方国家的一大障碍。
However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.
群山渐渐隐去，我们现在是在广阔的草原上，白蚁丘星罗棋布，那是昆虫世界的摩天大楼。
The hills recede into the distance and now we are in vast grasslands dotted with termite mounds, skyscraper sandcastles of the insect world.
行走中的人可以认识树木、花朵、昆虫、鸟类和动物，了解不同季节的意义，感受自己作为一个活生生的人生活在一个生机勃勃的世界里。
The man walking can learn the trees, flowers, insects, birds and animals, the significance of seasons, the very feel of himself as a living creature in a living world.
这里有250万种昆虫，例如世界上最大的蚂蚁。
There are 2.5 million kinds of insects, such as the world's largest ant.
从某种程度上来说，我是一名蚂蚁生物学家，所以我开始思考我们对昆虫的生命有什么了解，并且我知道昆虫世界对于人类而言仍有许多未知的领域。
I am, in part, an ant biologist, so my thoughts turned to what we know about insect life and I knew that much in the world of insects remains unknown.
世界上有一半种类的动物、植物和昆虫生活在地球的热带雨林中。
One half of the world's species of animals, plants and insects live in the Earth's rainforests.
他们当然喜欢我们，在昆虫世界里，人们可能没有一个更大的崇拜者。
They certainly like us; we probably have no greater admirers in the insect world.
一些生物(比如昆虫)不掌握外部世界的地图，甚至没有记忆，但是它们却活得非常自在；模仿它们会不会更好呢？
Further, many organisms, such as insects, thrive without a map of their external world or even memory; might it be better to try to emulate them?
其中的一个甚至像只巨大的昆虫，如图，像是在向世界点头一样。
One of them is even like a large insect, as shown, like a nod to the world.
加入飞行或滑动到安全地点的能力，事实上蚂蚁是昆虫世界的超级英雄。
Add the ability to fly — or glide — to safety, and ants are practically the superheroes of the insect world.
这就把观众放进到到昆虫的小世界里。
森林庇护着世界上动物、鸟类和昆虫等一半的物种。
They house more than half the world’s species of animals, birds and insects.
超过1,000种昆虫物种被世界上80%的国家食用，这些国家大多位于热带地区。
More than 1, 000 insect species are eaten around the world in 80% of countries – mostly in the tropics.
昆虫就将会使我们无法在这个世界上居住；如果我们没有受到以昆虫为食的动物的保护，昆虫就会吞嚼掉我们所有的庄稼并杀死我们饲养的禽兽。
Insects would make itimpossible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our cropsand kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protection we getfrom insect-eating animals.
这些勤劳的小昆虫是世界上最大的授粉者，在它们为蜂巢收集花蜜的过程中，带着花粉尘掠过一个又一个花朵。
These industrious little insects are the world's greatest pollinators, carrying a dusting of pollen from flower to flower as they gather nectar for their hives.
艺术家们并不仅仅停留在模仿昆虫世界的神奇事物。梵高的星夜蛋糕给你眼睛(还有一只耳朵)一道盛宴。
Artistic license doesn't stop at imitating the wonders of the insect world. Feast your eyes (and one ear) on these Van Gogh Starry Night cakes.
这种视点对画面形成了一种戏剧化的强调，而且前景以昆虫视角呈现的草给人以另一个世界的感觉。
The low vantage point gives the image dramatic emphasis, and the insect 's-eye view of the grass in the foreground creates an otherworldly appearance.
它眼睛的结构，和很多其他昆虫的眼睛一样，被称为复眼，是世界上最精确地结构模式之一。
The structure of the eye, similar to many other insects, is termed a compound eye and is one of the most precise and ordered patterns in Biology.
去年，他用这种方法制作出了世界上最小的能够起飞的昆虫。
Last year he used the method to build the world's smallest robotic insect capable of taking off.
第二天在昆虫和人类的世界，他要学生做个蜂蜜实验，提醒他们蜂蜜是蜜蜂呕吐出的。
The next day, at Insects and Human Society, she had her students do a honey tasting, reminding them that honey is, of course, the vomit of a bee.
伦敦自然历史博物馆的研究员保罗·布洛克称，毫无疑问，这种竹节虫是目前世界上最长的昆虫。
Paul Brock, a scientific associate of the Natural History Museum in London unconnected to the insect's discovery said there was no doubt it was the longest still in existence.
到处沾花惹草的请注意了，一夫一妻制可能是一个协作性社会的基石，至少在昆虫世界是这样的。
Swingers take note — monogamy may be the foundation of cooperative societies, at least for insects.
我们知道，世界各地80%的国家选择了一千多种可食用昆虫。
More than 1, 000 insects are known to be eaten by choice around the world, in 80% of nations.
事实上，在世界上有1400种昆虫被食用，而且食虫已有上千年的历史。
In fact, at least 1, 400 species of insects are eaten around the world, and the practice dates back thousands of years.
事实上，在世界上有1400种昆虫被食用，而且食虫已有上千年的历史。
In fact, at least 1, 400 species of insects are eaten around the world, and the practice dates back thousands of years.
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