6) This is a food web for a small forest ecosystem. Suppose that a farmer near the forest sprayed crops with a pesticide to kill insects and that some of the
spray washed into nearby streams and groundwater Food webs are complex and a change in one species would likely cause a change in other species as
well. Which of these species is LEAST likely to be affected by nearby pesticides?
A) mice
1) toads
snakes
D) insectivorous birds
