Question

Long-billed curlews eat many different kinds of insects, including grasshoppers, as a source of food. It has been shown that pesticide use kills many of these insects. How would you expect an increase in pesticide use to affect to the population of long-billed curlews in the same area?(1 point)
Responses

It would stay the same.
It would stay the same.

It would decrease.
It would decrease.

It would increase.
It would increase.

It would not be affected.

Answer 1

It would decrease.

Increased pesticide use reduces the insects (food) available to long-billed curlews, leading to lower survival and reproductive success and thus a population decline.