Every member of the colony has a different job to do: some collect food; others defend the queen, "said Sebesta, who sells at least two colonies per day at around 1,000 yuan each."

一窝蚂蚁中的每个成员都有各自不同的工作，有的去找食物，有的保卫蚁后。“斯拜斯达说道。”

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It isn't only that the hornet kills the honey bees (it takes their bodies back to its nest to feed its larvae), it's that the effort put in by the bees to defend their colony weakens them.

那不是黄蜂仅有的杀害小蜜蜂的方法(他们把小蜜蜂的尸体带回自己的巢内喂养幼蜂)，这是蜜蜂为维护自己的殖民地削弱他们而做的努力。

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Patrick Henry is most famous for a speech he gave in seventeen seventy-five to support his proposal to raise forces to defend the colony of Virginia against the British.

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It focuses on a small colony of people struggling to defend themselves against the virals.

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