The biology of aphids is bizarre : they can be born pregnant and males sometimes lack mouths , causing them to die not long after mating .
蚜虫具有奇怪的生物学特征:它们出生就能生育且雄蚜虫有时会没有口器,这会导致它们在交配不久后死亡。
But when summer returns and the living is easy , the aphids give up on variety and reproduce once again in the fastest way they know how .
但是在下一个夏季,生存又变得容易起来,蚜虫就会放弃多样性,以它们掌握的最快的方式重新生殖。
Instead , one sunday afternoon my eye caught this hoverfly larvae feasting on the aphids , something I had never seen before .
然而,一个星期天下午,我注意到这个食蚜蝇幼虫在享受着蚜虫的美味,这是我以前从未见过的。
They also captured vinegar flies and aphids -- usual spider prey -- and leaves to simulate debris falling into a spider web .
他们也捕捉果蝇和蚜虫蜘蛛惯常的食物和采集叶子来模拟掉落到蛛网上的碎屑。
Citrus farmers have required increasing quantities of pesticides to cope with rising numbers of aphids , scale insects and other pests that the argentines actively protect in exchange for the sweet honeydew they produce .
The researchers went on to crush the orange aphids and purify their carotenoids , demonstrating that it was these extracts that could absorb light and pass this energy on .
研究人员接着碾碎橘色蚜虫并提纯出它们的类胡萝卜素,结果表明正是这些提取物能吸收光能且传递能量。
Green aphids , which contain high levels of carotenoids , make significantly more atp than do white ones , which are almost devoid of these pigments .
那些含有高水平类胡萝卜素的绿色蚜虫明显比大部分缺乏这种色素的白色蚜虫产生更多的atp。
Steve mirsky reports aphids can be a gardener 's nightmare . But they may be an evolutionary biologist 's dream . Because they 're pioneers in the history of life on earth .
蚜虫是园丁们的噩梦,却也可能成为生物学家们梦寐以求的研究样本,因为它们在生物进化方面有独到之处。
The us food and drug administration allows , for example , up to 75 pieces of insect in 55mm of hot chocolate and up to 60 aphids in a portion of frozen broccoli .
Nancy moran , an insect geneticist at yale university in west haven , connecticut , who was responsible for the original discovery that aphids have the genes for carotenoid production , points out that there are many unanswered questions .