If mayflies lay eggs on roads instead of in water, this could involve which of the following? (choose one)?

Question

1) A defective behavioral gene

2) trial and error learning

3) misdirected response to a sign stimulus

4) natural behavioral variation in the mayfly population

5) insecticide poisoning

Answer 1

4

Answer 2

3 - misdirected response:  insects often get confused by non-natural objects like shiny cars, the way sunlight bounces off a roadway or tiled surface, or electric lightbulbs, and respond to them as if they are water, or a navigation source, leading them astray (often fatally).