The ants therefore cultivate these fungi in their nests, bringing them leaves to feed on, and then use them as a source of food.
"因此，蚂蚁在它们的巢中培养这些菌类，用叶子喂养它们，然后把它们当作食物来源。
One of the most successful ways to collect them is to gather the leaf litter in which they are foraging and extract the ants from it.
最成功的收集方法之一是，收集那些有蚂蚁在觅食的落叶，从中取出蚂蚁。
It's no surprise that Edward Wilson, in his essay, "In the company of ants", advises readers who ask what to do with the ants in their kitchen to: " Watch where you step. Be careful of little lives."
难怪EdwardWilson在他的文章《与蚂蚁为伴》中建议那些提问如何处理厨房中的蚂蚁的读者们：“注意你的脚下，小心小生命。”
The ants bring the seeds back to their home, which of course is underground.
蚂蚁把种子带回它们地下的家。
One of the ants freed me from the spider's web.
有只蚂蚁将我从蜘蛛网里放了出来。
Merian noted how the ants took the leaves below ground to their young.
梅里安注意到了蚂蚁是如何把地下的树叶带到它们的后代那里的。
The ants benefit the host tree by attacking virtually anything that touches it.
蚂蚁通过攻击几乎任何接触到它的东西而使宿主树受益。
The ants rely on the plants for shelter and food, while the plants need the ants to sow and spread their seeds.
蚂蚁依靠植物提供庇护和食物，同时植物也需要蚂蚁播种和散播他们的种子。
These include hand collecting, using baits to attract the ants, ground litter sampling, and the use of pitfall traps.
这些包括人工收集，使用诱饵吸引蚂蚁，地面垃圾取样，以及使用陷阱诱捕。
Because the ants play the behaviorally active role, it seems compelling to say that they cultivate and control the passive fungi.
由于蚂蚁在行为上扮演着积极的角色，它们培育和控制被动真菌的说法似乎很有说服力。
First, squirt some lemon juice on door thresholds and windowsills, then squeeze lemon juice into any holes or cracks where the ants are getting in.
首先挤一些柠檬汁在门槛和窗台上，然后将柠檬汁挤进各种蚂蚁可能爬进来的小洞或者裂缝。
The ants also eat yellow structures at the tip of leaflets: these are protein rich and seem to have no function for the tree except to attract ants.
蚂蚁还吃嫩叶顶端的黄色结构：这些结构富含蛋白质，除了吸引蚂蚁外似乎对树没有作用。
The ants also eat yellow structures at the tip of leaflets: these are protein-rich and seem to have no function for the tree except to attract ants.
蚂蚁还吃小叶顶端的黄色组织：这些结构富含蛋白质，除了吸引蚂蚁外，似乎对树没有任何其他作用。
Hoelldobler and Wilson's magnificent work for ant lovers, The Ants, describes a supercolony of the ant Formica yessensis on the Ishikari Coast of Hokkaido.
《蚂蚁》是 Hoelldobler和Wilson为蚂蚁爱好者所创作的杰出作品，这部作品描述了北海道石狩湾海岸上的一个超级蚁群——石狩红蚁。
In 2015 these ants were joined in the desert by scientists from two Belgian universities, who spent a month in the extreme heat tracking the ants and digging out their nests.
2015年，比利时两所大学的科学家加入了这些蚂蚁的行列，他们来到沙漠，花了一个月的时间在极端的高温天气下追踪蚂蚁，挖掘蚂蚁的巢穴。
Even more impressively, DNA analysis of the fungi suggests that the ants improve or modify the fungi by regularly swapping and sharing strains with neighbouring ant colonies.
更令人印象深刻的是，真菌的DNA分析表明，蚂蚁通过与邻近的蚁群定期交换和共享菌种来改善或修改真菌。
When the ants are removed, the trees usually die, probably because herbivores damage them so much that they are unable to compete with surrounding vegetation for light and growing space.
当蚂蚁被移走后，树木通常会死亡，可能是因为食草动物对它们的伤害太大，它们无法与周围的植物竞争光照和生长空间。
Your backyard is the ants' natural habitat.
你的后院是蚂蚁的天然栖息地。
Annabel said, glaring at the ants from the wheelchair.
安娜·贝利说，从轮椅上看到了蚂蚁。
The ants connect by gripping each others’ mandibles and claws.
这些蚂蚁通过互相抓住彼此的下颚和侧爪，聚集在一起。
The tree provides the ants with a home(in special branches)
这种树会给蚂蚁提供房子（在特殊的树干上）
They then tested the chemical's role in keeping the ants at bay.
随即，他们测试了这种化学物质在困住蚂蚁上所起的作用。
Yang Pao ran over and picked the titmouse up, brushing away the ants.
杨宝跑过去，拾起山雀，掸去蚂蚁。
The ants were diligent and focused: The team must keep working, even slowly.
蚂蚁努力而专注：团队必须保持工作，即使速度不快。
Mate said the ants, which he spent hours following, were "wonderful subjects."
本斯·马特说，他花了几个小时所追随的蚂蚁是“美妙的摄影主题。”
The ants worked as a team: I will form a team, bringing professionals together.
蚂蚁以团队来工作：我将组成一只团队，把专业人士聚集起来。
It's interesting, when I talk to the ants, there is a consensus among them.
有意思的是，我们在谈到蚁族时，他们都很有默契。
But this leads to waste and pollution, "and the ants accomplish it through microbes."
但是这样做会导致浪费和污染。然而蚂蚁却利用微生物完成了这个过程。
That was the first house of the ants before they got a new and comfortable dwelling.
这是这些蚂蚁在找到一个新的舒适的住所前的第一个住所。
But anyone, even the ants, the flies — anyone who comes near me wants to eat me. Why?
不过每个人一靠近我，就想把我吃掉，连蚂蚁、苍蝇也不例外，为什么？
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