Barbara is a research scientist at an organic pest control company. Part of her job is to find foods that ants will eat so the foods can be used in ant baits.

Over the last month, Barbara performed an investigation in her lab involving 100 ant mounds. She began by placing equal amounts of corn meal and maple syrup on opposite sides of each mound. Each morning, she measured how much of each food the ants had taken. She then replaced the foods with fresh samples, and repeated the process every day.

Which of the following questions was Barbara most likely investigating?

Barbara investigating that which food the ants like the most in order to use this food for killing the ants and removes them from a specific area.

Explanation: Ants are insects which sometimes act as pest because it lives in holes in the house and act as a carrier of many harmful diseases so in order to control the spreading of the disease we have to control the population of ants.

well for one plants are always the producer, so a is the answer. a wolf is more of the consumer(predator) and the deer is the prey so i know those two are out of the question. also mushrooms are fungi/fungus so a is the producer.