"Butterflies are disappearing in Ohio. Here’s what that means for insects everywhere"

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by Vicky Stein

A photo show some butterflies sitting on a flower.
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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.

In a new study published Tuesday in PLOS ONE, a group of researchers analyzed one of the rare data sets that tracks butterfly abundance, taken from 21 years of volunteer surveys in Ohio. They found an average population decline of 2 percent per year, which means that over the course of the study, Ohio lost more than a third of its butterfly population.

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Read “Butterflies are disappearing in Ohio. Here’s what that means for insects everywhere” below to answer the question.

What does the first subheading suggest about how the section relates to the title?

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It signals that the section will tell that scientists discovered that butterflies were disappearing in Ohio.
It signals that the section will tell that scientists discovered that butterflies were disappearing in Ohio.

It signals that the section will tell that scientists discovered that butterflies were disappearing in Ohio and why it matters.
It signals that the section will tell that scientists discovered that butterflies were disappearing in Ohio and why it matters.

It signals that the section will tell why scientists discovered that butterflies were disappearing in Ohio.
It signals that the section will tell why scientists discovered that butterflies were disappearing in Ohio.

It signals that the section will tell how scientists discovered that butterflies were disappearing in

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Ohio and what the implications are for insect populations elsewhere.