Which situation is most likely to cause an increase in interspecific competition? a. the number of female moose in a population declines due to a disease. b. two species of birds evolve to feed on seeds from different types of trees. c. part of a forest is cut down to construct a housing development. d. a previously farmed field is allowed to develop into a meadow.

Some species of wasps are social. the queen starts a colony from scratch each spring. she builds a small nest, and lays and raises a group of female workers. the workers enlarge the nest while the queen continues to lay eggs. unfertilized eggs become males that mate with newly hatched females. all of the wasps except the newly fertilized females die by the summer. which best describes this behavior? a)it is beneficial only to the males that do not fertilize eggs. b)it is beneficial only to the female workers that are not fertilized. c)it is beneficial to each one of the individual colony members. d)it is beneficial to the whole species, but not to all of the individual members.