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A small insect has started to overpopulate in a local forest. This has caused a number of plants and shrubs to die because they are the insect’s primary food source. Deer also eat these plants and shrubs, which is causing them to have to travel further to find additional food. What is the MOST likely reason this insect’s population has started to grow?


There was an especially cold winter, and it caused a higher insect population.


A predator that typically eats the insect has started to disappear from the forest.


A dry summer caused plant life to decrease and insect reproduction to increase.


The population of a predator that typically eats the insect has started to increase.

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The most likely reason this insect’s population has started to grow is that a predator that typically eats the insect has started to disappear from the forest. That is option B.

What is predator?

A predator is an animal that has the ability to hunt other smaller animals called prey, for food.

The insects where able to multiple and overpopulate in a local forest because the number of animals ( the predators) that fed on them has drastically reduced.

This effect in the population size of the insects is so because as predators decrease numbers of prey increase.

Learn more about prey here:

https://brainly.com/question/24537210

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