Miller visited a Texas gas company that has successfully applied formulas based on ant colony behaviour to "optimise its factories and route its trucks".
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14. 今天这个蚁群需要多少觅食蚁?
How many foragers does the colony need today?
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15. 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.
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16. 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.
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.
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.
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?"
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.
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24. 它可能是食蚁的。
It is probably myrmecophagous.
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25. 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.
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26. 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.