Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphids for the honeydew they produce when they feed, so Google farms us for the data that our digital lives yield.
就像一些蚂蚁养殖一种叫做蚜虫的小虫，以获取它们进食时产生的蜜露一样，谷歌为了获取我们数字生活中产生的数据而“养殖”我们。
They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies to war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly.
它们培养菌类，将蚜虫当作家畜来饲养，发对军队作战，使用化学喷雾来警告和迷惑敌人，捕获奴隶，雇佣童工，并且不停地交换信息。
So can the movement of aphids when, having depleted the young leaves on one food plant, their offspring then fly onward to a different host plant, with no one aphid ever returning to where it started.
蚜虫的运动也是如此，当吃完一株食用植物的幼叶，它们的后代会飞到另一株宿主植物上，没有蚜虫会再回到最初的地方。
Ants keep predatory insects away from where their aphids feed; Gmail keeps the spammers out of our inboxes.
蚂蚁让食肉昆虫远离蚜虫的觅食处；Gmail使垃圾邮件发送人远离我们的收件箱。
是的，蚜虫也是动物。
The immobilized aphids quickly died.
被粘住的蚜虫很快死亡。
Aphids do fatal damage to the young shoots.
蚜虫对幼苗会造成极大危害。
Ladybugs love to snack on aphids and other pests.
瓢虫喜欢吃蚜虫以及其它害虫。
Aphids select host plants mainly by winged aphids.
蚜虫对寄主的选择主要为有翅蚜。
The young beetle larvae can eat hundreds of aphids.
而幼龄瓢虫则可吃掉数百只蚜虫。
But Moran wondered if aphids were an exception to the rule.
但是，莫兰猜想，豌豆蚜虫可能是一个例外。
Aphids that attack your rose bushes can be a headache.
蚜虫侵袭你的玫瑰丛成了你头痛的问题。
Aphids suck the juices from garden plants and kill them.
蚜虫吸果汁从园林植物，并杀死他们。
So the next question was, where did the aphids get the genes?
因此，接下来的问题是，蚜虫从哪里获得类胡萝卜素的基因？
Physical control by yellow trap aphids, black light trapping moth.
物理防治利用黄板诱杀蚜虫，黑光灯诱杀蛾类。
In 2000 no aphids had a particular resistance mechanism called mace.
在2000年，没有蚜虫出现一种耐药机制，称为权杖。
But farmers love them because they eat aphids and other plant-eating pests.
而农民喜爱他们是因为它们吃蚜虫和其他吃植物的害虫。
"Basically, these little red aphids are like little tomatoes," says Moran.
“基本上，这些红色的小蚜虫看上去像小西红柿，”莫兰说。
The researchers noticed that invaders were often mobbed by older, wingless aphids.
研究者们还发现，闯入的捕食者通常都会遭到翅膀脱落的年老蚜虫围攻。
Bunchy top disease can spread from plant to plant and is also spread by aphids.
束顶病除了植株间相互感染外，还能通过一种蚜虫传播。
More impressive, aphids got their ability to make carotenoids through a major shortcut.
更令人印象深刻的是蚜虫是走捷径才能产生类胡萝卜素的。
Phloem elements and adjacent tissues are the principal feeding sites for most aphids.
韧皮部及其邻近组织是大多数蚜虫的主要取食部位。
However, reproduction rates of some insects such as aphids are influenced by nutrition.
然而，一些昆虫的繁殖率，如蚜虫等是受营养影响的。
Disease: Aphids, mealy bugs, powdery mildew, fungal leaf spot, stem and root rot if over watered.
病虫害：蚜虫，介壳虫，白粉病，真菌叶斑病，如果超过浇水可患茎、根腐病。
I bound the base of the tree with sticky tape, making it impossible for the ants to reach the aphids.
我用一条胶带把桃树底部包上，不让蚂蚁接近蚜虫。
The aphids essentially stole the fungi's microbial genes. It's what scientists call lateral gene transfer.
蚜虫基本上偷走了真菌的微生物的基因。
Ladybugs lay their eggs in clusters or rows on the underside of a leaf, usually where aphids have gathered.
瓢虫在树叶的背面成片或成排的产卵，通常也是蚜虫聚集的地方。
Ladybugs lay their eggs in clusters or rows on the underside of a leaf, usually where aphids have gathered.
瓢虫在树叶的背面成片或成排的产卵，通常也是蚜虫聚集的地方。
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