英语翻译If you're invading meat-eating Argentinian ant and you run out of preythere's only one thing to do if you want to keep on invading-become a vegetarian.And that's just what the carnivorous Argentinian ants that have invaded California did,

英语翻译If you're invading meat-eating Argentinian ant and you run out of preythere's only one thing to do if you want to keep on invading-become a vegetarian.And that's just what the carnivorous Argentinian ants that have invaded California did,
英语翻译
If you're invading meat-eating Argentinian ant and you run out of prey
there's only one thing to do if you want to keep on invading-become a vegetarian.
And that's just what the carnivorous Argentinian ants that have invaded California did,
they switched and began to eat vegetable matter.
No,these 2 millimeter-long critters didn't develop moral qualms about eating meat,
they aren't trying to save the planet,
they just ran out of their first choice-native ants.
Researchers writing in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences
say that these ants gobbled up the native ants,
which can be 10 times their size.
The new comers then had no choice but to carbo-load,
switching over to such sweet treats as honeydew nectar produced by aphids.
The ants which are believed to have arrived in California on ships carrying coffee and sugar from Argentina in 1890s,
have caused problems for big creatures as well.
The coastal horned lizard which dined on dometic ants has declined the numbers by about half recently,
apparently because the lizard doesn't particularly care for Argentinian food.

英语翻译If you're invading meat-eating Argentinian ant and you run out of preythere's only one thing to do if you want to keep on invading-become a vegetarian.And that's just what the carnivorous Argentinian ants that have invaded California did,
prey猎物
carnivorous食肉的
critter小动物
qualm良心之谴责,不安
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences美国国家科学院学报
The new comers then have no choice but to carbo - load,switching over to such sweet trees as honey dew nectar produced by aphids.
这些新来的阿根廷蚂蚁别无选择就食用含糖食品,食用那种有像蚜虫分泌的蜜露一样甜味的树.
carbo碳水化合物,含糖食品
dew露水\x05honey dew甘露
nectar花蜜
aphid蚜虫
horned lizard角蜥蜴
dine on吃
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