Information and IdeasMediumUndermining a claim about market bees
Information and Ideas practice question
Some beekeepers claim that long-distance trucking of hives between crops is itself a major driver of colony infections, stressing bees until disease takes hold. ____
Which finding, if true, would most directly weaken the beekeepers' claim?
- A. Hives moved to almond orchards showed the same infection rates as hives that never traveled.Correct
- B. Truck transport raised hive temperatures by several degrees for days.
- C. Migratory hives pollinate crops worth billions of dollars annually.
- D. Some beekeepers transport hives across a dozen states each season.
Answer: A. Hives moved to almond orchards showed the same infection rates as hives that never traveled.
The claim blames travel for infection; identical infection rates in traveling and stationary hives breaks that link.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Truck transport raised hive temperatures by several degrees for days.
- Higher transport temperatures would, if anything, fit the claim rather than weaken it.
- C. Migratory hives pollinate crops worth billions of dollars annually.
- The economic value of pollination is irrelevant to disease causation.
- D. Some beekeepers transport hives across a dozen states each season.
- The distance hives travel describes the practice without testing its health effects.
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