Question

HELP PLEASE!! Field test is done on the milkweed in the wild and the clothianidin content per plant was about 1 ppb. larvae spend days in the wild eating the milkweed. how is this different from the experimental conditions? how would you design an experiment to test these conditions?

Answer 1

In the question it is given that the milkweed with clothianidin above the 1ppb concentration will result in less successful hatching of monarch butterfly eggs. Along with the data from the experiments, the exposure of clothianidin on the monarch habitats will lead to a decrease in the population of the monarch butterfly initially. Then in later generations if any mutation occurs and a resistant butterfly is developed then the population of the monarch butterfly will recover. But without this mutation the population size will be reduced and the size and weight of the butterfly will also get reduced.

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