The best evidence from the text that supports the analysis is the percentage of bumblebees infected based on their proximity to apiaries. This directly illustrates the relationship between the distance from honeybee apiaries and the infection rates in bumblebees, which is a key focus of the analysis.
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Are commercial honeybees making wild bees sick?: What they found
All of the honeybee colonies tested by the researchers were positive for both viruses, an
unfortunate but common occurrence for commercial colonies.
But the number of wild bumblebees carrying viruses varied depending on the proximity to the
domesticated hives. There was also variation between the two viruses.
More than 90 percent of bumblebees collected close to apiaries carried black queen cell virus.
In sites farther from apiaries, and where no honeybees were foraging, just under 40 percent
were positive for this virus. When the researchers checked for actual infections, they found that
the proximity to an apiary wasn’t telling of whether a bumblebee was infected with black queen
cell virus. That means sites near and far from a commercial beehive had the same abundance
of black queen cell virus infections.
The connection was clearer for deformed wing virus infections. Twenty percent of bumblebees
foraging close to apiaries carried the virus on their outsides and 10 percent had active
infections. But in sites more than a half mile away from an apiary, where honeybees were
absent, not a single bumblebee tested positive for deformed wing virus — as a carrier or with
an infection.
When the researchers looked at infected flowers, they noticed a similar trend. Of the 20 percent
of flowers that tested positive for viruses, all were picked close to apiaries. And the denser the
flower patch in these areas, the higher the rate of deformed wing virus infection in bumblebees.
Researchers claimed they found a relationship between bumblebee infections and how close
the bumblebees were to honeybee apiaries.
What evidence from the text best supports this analysis?
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the percentage of flowers that tested positive for viruses and their proximity to apiaries
the fact that all the honeybee apiaries researchers tested were infected with both viruses
the fact that there was a difference between the two types of viruses researchers tested
the percentage of bumblebees infected base on their proximity to apiaries
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