SCIENCE
ECOLOGY
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The insects would lose their habitat and will move to other locations.
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The insects would immediately become extinct.
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The insects would find another food source.
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The insects would lose their habitat and will move to other locations and the insects would find another food source.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Plants and insects make up together approximately half of all known species of multicellular organisms. Each plant interacts with insects in a different manner; insects may act as protection, dispersers, or fertilizers for plants while plants may be a food/energy resource or nest location for insects.
Detailed explanation-2: -There are three basic types of plant-insect mutualistic relationships: protection, pollination and seed dispersal.
Detailed explanation-3: -A preeminent association between flowering plants and insects is pollination. Pollination is a mutualism in which two interactors reciprocally benefit: a host plant receives the service of insect pollination in return for a reward provided for its insect pollinator.
Detailed explanation-4: -Through the facilitation of partners, mutualism allows organisms to excel in otherwise marginal habitats, avoid competition, exploit new niches and buffer environmental variability. For example, leaf-cutter ants are the dominant herbivores in the forests they inhabit-a role made possible by mutualisms with fungi.