Informational Text Evidence

What evidence from the text best supports the analysis that human actions are related to bumblebee decline?

The study that shows viruses may be spilling over from commercial hives to wild bees

What evidence from the text best supports the inference that advice to people who want to help bees will continue to change over time?

Alger is still investigating whether increasing plant diversity or culling certain plants could help decrease disease transmission.

What evidence from the text best supports the inference that honeybees—not bumblebees—are responsible for infecting the studied flowers?

All of the honeybees researchers collected were infected with both viruses. selected, this is the correct answer All the infected flowers researchers picked and tested were close to apiaries.

What evidence from the text best supports the inference that people have been more concerned with the health of honeybees than wild bumblebees in recent years? S

People are more familiar with honeybee die-offs. Also, the causes of bumblebee die-offs have been largely understudied.

The article claimed that actions humans take to help honeybees may harm wild bumblebees. What best describes the type of evidence used in this section to support the claim?

The author described the type of study scientists used to assess the problem.