3. Which will most likely occur if two species occupy the same niche in an ecosystem? A. The two species will become friendly and share the niche.
B. The two species will support each other, and one species will overpopulate.
C. The two species will compete directly against each other for resources, and one species will eventually die off.
D. The two species will compete directly against each other for resources, and both species will eventually die off.

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.