为什么林蚁的数量保持稳定呢？
科学家们想知道红火蚁是如何实现漂浮的。
他们提出了一个基于蚁群自组织原则的计算机模型。
They came up with a computer model, based on the self-organising principles of an ant colony.
一些觅食蚁外出后，一找到食物就会带上食物回到巢穴里。
Some forager ants go out, and as soon as they find food, they pick it up and come back to the nest.
因此，计划引进以洛马蚁为食的蚁蝇进入该地区将有利于公共健康。
Therefore, the planned introduction into that region of ant flies, which prey on Loma ants, would benefit public health.
还不知道这只小木蚁打算用这种微芯片做什么，不过，说它对科学感兴趣是多么恰当。
What this little wood ant is planning to do with this microchip is unkonwn, but how appropriate to say that he appears to have a scientific interest.
对于从地下的巢穴中爬到炙热的阳光下猎食的撒哈拉银蚁来说，这是寻找午餐的最佳时间。
For the Saharan silver ant, crawling from their underground nests into the sun's brutal rays to hunt for food, this is the perfect time to seek lunch.
大自然保护协会还向众多入侵物种发起了宣战，从羊群到植物，再到具有攻击性的阿根廷蚁。
The Nature Conservancy has declared war on a multitude of invasive species here, from sheep to plants to the aggressive Argentine ant.
米勒参观了一家德州天然气公司，该公司成功地应用了基于蚁群行为的公式来“优化其工厂和卡车的路线”。
Miller visited a Texas gas company that has successfully applied formulas based on ant colony behaviour to "optimise its factories and route its trucks".
今天这个蚁群需要多少觅食蚁？
一些蚂蚁，比如木蚁，会破坏房屋结构，而另一些蚂蚁则会干扰电器装置。
Some, like carpenter ants, can undermine a home structure, while others interfere with the electrical units.
不幸的是，我们家对蚂蚁很有吸引力，因为它提供了蚁群生存所需的一切，如食物、水和遮蔽之处。
Unfortunately, our homes are very attractive to ants, because it provides everything the colony needs to survive, such as food, water, and shelter.
在提倡这种方法时，黛博拉·戈登引用了一些实验，在这些实验中，对蚁群构成的干预扰乱了工蚁的活动。
In advocating this approach, Deborah Gordon cites experiments in which intervention in a colony's makeup perturbed worker activity.
斯坦福大学的一位生物学家告诉我，如果不以整个蚁群为出发点，单只蚂蚁做的任何事情都是没有意义的。
A biologist at Stanford University showed me that nothing an ant does makes any sense except in terms of the whole colony.
如果一只蚂蚁找到了一个出色的洞穴——比如橡子或岩石裂缝的内部——它就会叫来另一只侦察蚁对洞穴进行检查。
If an ant finds an outstanding hole—such as the inside of an acorn or a rock crevice—it recruits another scout to check it out.
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。
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.
由世界顶级蚁学家所著的《蚁丘》中部分内容表明：在威尔逊先生身上，蚂蚁不仅找到了它们的达尔文，也找到了它们的荷马。
One part of "Anthill", by the world's leading myrmecologist, demonstrates that in Mr. Wilson, ants have found not only their Darwin but also their Homer.
他解释说：“如果蚁群已经找到了一种可靠的方法来确定蚁巢和食物源之间的最佳路线，那么公司经理们就会想，为什么不利用这种知识呢？”
He explains, "If ant colonies had worked out a reliable way to identify the best routes between their nest and food sources, the company managers figured, why not take advantage of that knowledge?"
《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。
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.
它可能是食蚁的。
测定氟虫胺饵剂用于公园和公共绿地等对红火蚁的灭治效果。
Test the efficacy of sulfluramid bait against Solenopsis invicta in gardens and common greenbelt.
关注‘蚁族’就是关注社会未来。
Paying attention to the ‘Ant Tribe’ is paying attention to society’s future.
生活在澳洲昆士兰的绿树蚁。
关于澳大利亚牛头犬蚁。
这些丝蚁是个谜。
然而庆幸的是，“蚁村”的生活成本是可以承受的。
But, luckily, the cost of living in an ant village is affordable.
然而庆幸的是，“蚁村”的生活成本是可以承受的。
But, luckily, the cost of living in an ant village is affordable.
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