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This construction of grass stems takes bee architecture to new heights.
这些草茎让蜜蜂的建筑艺术更上一层楼。
The red-tailed mason bee, nicknamed the tent-making bee,
红尾石蜂，绰号也叫搭帐篷的蜜蜂，
has solved the problem of cuckoo bees breaking into her nursery.
成功解决了杜鹃蜂入侵它的育儿所的问题。
After carefully picking a snail shell, she fills it with both leaf pulp and mud.
精心挑选了一个蜗牛壳后，它在里面塞满了腐叶和泥土。
Like Nicky, every stage of the process involves decisions.
跟Nicky一样，这个过程中的每一步都需要决策。
She spends a long time positioning the shell into just the right angle on the ground.
它用了很长时间，把蜗牛壳以最合适的角度放置在地面上。
Even digging it into the soil to hold that position.
甚至还挖坑固定住这个姿势。
But that's just the beginning.
但这还只是开始。
Next comes a huge undertaking.
接下来才是重头戏。
She gathers hundreds of bits of carefully chosen sticks of grass.
它收集了一大堆精心挑选的干草棍。
To drive the stems into the structure, she vibrates her wing muscles...
为了把干草弄到这个结构体里，它震动着翅膀上的肌肉...
which is why the whole thing hangs together.
所以这些东西才堆在一起。
Over three hours she assembles a structure more than 20 times her height.
三个多小时后，它堆起了一个比它高20倍的结构体。
Nothing can get into this fortress.
谁也闯不进这个堡垒里。
