by Vicky Stein
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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Question
Use the excerpt from “Butterflies are disappearing in Ohio. Here’s what that means for insects everywhere” to answer the question.
Which idea introduced in paragraph 1 gets developed in paragraph 2?(1 point)
Responses
Bug splatters are caused by moving vehicles hitting insects.
Bug splatters are caused by moving vehicles hitting insects.
The author received an odd birthday present as a child.
The author received an odd birthday present as a child.
People get annoyed when bugs splatter on their windshields.
People get annoyed when bugs splatter on their windshields.
The decrease in bug splatters is cause for concern.
The decrease in bug splatters is cause for concern.
1 answer
The idea introduced in paragraph 1 that gets developed in paragraph 2 is:
The decrease in bug splatters is cause for concern.
In the first paragraph, the author mentions the decline in reported bug splatters, and in the second paragraph, the study's findings are discussed, indicating that this decline is significant and troubling.
