The author's main purpose for the text is to inform. The article discusses the decline of butterflies in Ohio and its implications for insects everywhere, which suggests that the author aims to provide information on this important ecological issue.
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"Butterflies are disappearing in Ohio. Here’s what that means for insects everywhere"
by Vicky Stein
A photo show some butterflies sitting on a flower.
Source: LilKar. Shutterstock
For my 11th birthday, I received a perfect, weird, road-trip amusement: a book filled with pictures and descriptions to help kids decode the splatters of insects that smacked into the front of a moving vehicle. Whether that sounds like macabre fun or makes you grumble about keeping the windshield clean, a steep decline in reported bug splatters in recent years should actually make us worried, entomologists and ecologists say.
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Read “Butterflies are disappearing in Ohio. Here’s what that means for insects everywhere” below to answer the question.
What is the author’s main purpose for the text?
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to inform
to inform
to instruct
to instruct
to persuade
to persuade
to entertain
to entertain
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