aphids

Just as some ants farm the bugs called aphids for the honeydew they produce when they feed, so Google farms us for the data that our digital lives yield.

就像一些蚂蚁养殖一种叫做蚜虫的小虫，以获取它们进食时产生的蜜露一样，谷歌为了获取我们数字生活中产生的数据而“养殖”我们。

They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies to war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessly.

它们培养菌类，将蚜虫当作家畜来饲养，发对军队作战，使用化学喷雾来警告和迷惑敌人，捕获奴隶，雇佣童工，并且不停地交换信息。

So can the movement of aphids when, having depleted the young leaves on one food plant, their offspring then fly onward to a different host plant, with no one aphid ever returning to where it started.

蚜虫的运动也是如此，当吃完一株食用植物的幼叶，它们的后代会飞到另一株宿主植物上，没有蚜虫会再回到最初的地方。

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

蚂蚁让食肉昆虫远离蚜虫的觅食处；Gmail 使垃圾邮件发送人远离我们的收件箱。

And yes, aphids are animals.

是的，蚜虫也是动物。