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 increase.
It would increase.

It would not be affected.
It would not be affected.

It would decrease.
It would decrease.

It would stay the same.

Answer 1

It would decrease.

Increasing pesticide use would reduce the insects (food) available to curlews, causing lower survival and reproduction and thus a decline in their population.