Imagine you're an aphid, a tiny insect that sucks plant sap for a living.

想象你是一只虫——一种以吸食植物汁液为生的小昆虫。

Right now, the aphids have the upper hand.

现在 他眼里只有瓢虫。

The young aphids that hatch are all female.

孵化出来的虫幼虫都是。

See if you can hear the strategy American aphids use to reproduce.

看看你能不能听懂美国虫繁殖的策略。

Female aphids can make little, tiny clones of themselves without ever mating.

虫不用交配就能复制很小很小的自己。

Insects in the Hemiptera order have piercing-sucking mouthparts and include bed bugs, cicadas, aphids, and leafhoppers.

半翅类的昆虫就具有这样刺吸式的口器，其中括臭虫、蝉、虫、叶蝉。

Clusters of tiny insects called aphids were to be found on the underside of the leaves.

结果在树叶背面找到成串的叫作虫的小虫子。

Ants keep predatory insects away from where their aphids feed; Gmail keeps the spammers out of our inboxes.

蚂蚁赶走虫进食之处的捕食昆虫；谷歌邮箱也帮助我们在收件前远离那些垃圾邮件制造者。

In the spring, female aphids lay eggs which hatch – break open allowing the young to come out.

在春天，虫会产卵，然后孵化——让幼虫破卵而出。

By cloning themselves with 'virgin births' and reproducing sexually, aphids maximise their chances of survival.

通过" 单生殖" 的无繁殖以及有繁殖，虫使它们的生存机会最大化。

Oh, no. Please tell me it isn't aphids.

不 请告诉我这不是虫。

The ground is a scary place for an aphid, but it's better than a cow's mouth.

对虫来说，地面是个可怕的地方，但好过牛的嘴巴。

An aphid investation in one plant triggers its neighbor to ramp up production of compounds that repel aphids and attract aphid-eating wasps.

一株植物上虫的入侵能激活它的邻居产生大量的抗虫化学物质，将吃虫的黄蜂吸引过来。

They climb aboard the back of a larger aphid that's also making an escape and hitch a ride, cowboy style.

它们爬到同样在逃命的大虫背上，像牛仔那样搭便车。

Gardeners around the world will be upset to hear that – those young aphids just love eating tomato plants!

世界各地的园丁听到这个消息会很难过——那些虫幼虫就喜欢吃番茄的茎叶！

Aphids are some of agriculture's most important pests, but to Gish they are also a part of a fascinating, important ecosystem.

虫是农业中最重要的害虫之一，但对吉什来说，虫也是迷人且重要的生态系统的一部分。

Clusters of tiny insects called aphides were to be found on the underside of the leaves.

结果在树叶背面找到成串的叫作虫小虫子。

There's a lot of action going on between the aphids and the plants, and the aphids and their predators, and the aphids and the elements.

虫和植物、虫与捕食者以及虫与自然环境之间存在大量活动。

So the aphids have the best of both worlds – they enjoy the advantages of very different things at the same time.

所以虫两头受益——它们同时享有截然不同的事物的优势。

For instance, if we counted all the aphids, on all the soybean plants, just on North American farms, we would find as many as a quadrillion aphids.

例如，如果我们将它们全部计算在内所有大豆植物上的虫，仅在北美农场，我们会发现大约一千万亿只虫。