Question

use the excerpt from \disappearing ohio butterflies affects all insects\ by vicky stein. for my 11th birthday, i received a perfect, weird, road - trip amusement a book filled with pictures and descriptions to help kids decode the splatters of insects that smacked into the front of a moving vehicle. whether that sounds like macabre fun or makes you grumble about keeping the windshield clean, a steep decline in reported bug splatters in recent years should actually make us worried, entomologists and ecologists say. in a new study published tuesday in plos one, a group of researchers analyzed one of the rare data sets that tracks butterfly abundance, taken from 21 years of volunteer surveys in ohio. they found an average population decline of 2 percent per year, which means that over the course of the study. use the excerpt from \disappearing ohio butterflies affects all insects\ to answer the question. which idea introduced in paragraph 1 gets developed in paragraph 2? (1 point) bug splatters are caused by moving vehicles hitting insects. the author received an odd birthday present as a child. people get annoyed when bugs splatter on their windshields. the decrease in bug splatters is cause for concern.

Explanation:

Paragraph 1 mentions receiving a book on the 11th birthday with pictures and descriptions related to bug splatters. Paragraph 2 then elaborates on the concern about the decline in bug splatters which is a development of the idea introduced in paragraph 1.

Answer:

The decrease in bug splatters is cause for concern.