A fully grown ladybug can eat nearly 500 aphids a day.

一只长大瓢每天能吃掉五百只蚜。

Right now, the aphids have the upper hand.

现在 他眼里只有瓢。

Meanwhile, among aphids, losses are not a problem.

然而对于蚜来说损失根本不是问题。

When you do see pests like aphids, wash them away.

当你看到诸如蚜害时，把它们洗掉。

You want to wash aphids off with a strong current of water.

你想用一股强水流把蚜冲走。

But some aphids, katydids, lizards, geckos, and snakes only ever reproduce via parthenogenesis.

而有些蚜、蝈蝈、蜥蜴、壁虎、蛇等只进行孤雌殖。

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

雌蚜不用交配就能复制很小很小自己。

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

蚂蚁赶走蚜进处性昆；谷歌邮箱也帮助我们在收件前远离那些垃圾邮件制造者。

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

通过" 单性殖" 无性繁殖以及有性繁殖，蚜使它们存机会最大化。

But how do you deal with the aphids on tomato plants?

但是如何处理番茄植株上蚜呢？

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

想象你是一只蚜——一种以吸植物汁液为小昆。

You can't be too young if you're an aphid, some of them are born pregnant.

如果你是蚜，再早繁衍都不算早，它们有些刚出就已经怀孕了。

Herding aphids is pretty much the same.

放牧蚜基本也是一样。

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

看看你能不能听懂美国蚜繁殖策略。

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

半翅昆就具有这样刺吸式口器，其中包括臭、蝉、蚜、叶蝉。

One is to spray soapy water onto soft-bodied insects like aphids, spider mites, thrips and whiteflies.

一种是向蚜、蜘蛛螨、蓟马和粉虱等软体昆喷洒肥皂水。

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

在春天，雌性蚜会产卵，卵会孵化 —— 破壳让幼出来。

The young aphids that hatch are all female.

孵化出来蚜幼都是雌性。

Well, Clem says they might be pursuing the aphids they eat southward...or maybe they're following the blooms of nectar-rich flowers.

Clem 说它们可能在追随在南方吃蚜，或者追赶富有花蜜丰富植物花期。

This amazing reproduction process allows aphids to reproduce without wasting any time looking for a partner.

这种奇妙繁殖过程让蚜能不用寻找配偶这样就不会浪费任何时间。