Legions of worker ants can cover a very large area.

大队工蚁能在很大范围活动。

A worker ant, which has completely degraded ovaries, is responsible for foraging and " childcare."

一只已经完全退化卵巢的工蚁负责觅食和“育儿”。

Female worker ants with huge jaws are specialist at hauling away the largest grain kernels.

雌性工蚁有巨大的上腭是拖动大粒谷仁的个中高手。

Then, like a colony of worker ants, they dismantled their stalls and left.

随后，人们像勤劳的蚂蚁般，拆掉摊位，四散而去。

Like greatly speeded up worker ants, they busily build and rebuild molecules, hauling a piece off this one, adding a piece to that one.

就像快镜头里的工蚁，它们不断地建立和重建分子。为这个减去一小块，为那个增加一小块。

These long, convoluted molecular chains—each assembled from a menu of 20 types of chemical links called amino acids—are the worker ants of biology.

这些长而复杂的分子链——每条分子链都由 20 种称为氨基酸的化学链组合而成——是生物学中的工蚁。

Like, how a queen ant's nutrition and pheromones can chemically alter an ant embryo to either produce a soldier or worker ant based on what's needed for the colony.

比如，蚁后的营养和信息素是如何通过化学作用改变蚂蚁胚胎，使其根据蚁群的需要产生兵蚁或工蚁。

For example, take several pieces of Burmese amber that were all found close together and analyzed in 2016. In one of the pieces, there are twelve worker ants all trapped together, eleven of one species and one hell ant.

例如，以 2016 年发现并分析的几块缅甸琥珀为例。 在其中一块中，有十二只工蚁被困在一起，一个物种的十一只和一只地狱蚂蚁。