About three quarters of the crop species grown for human food depend to some degree on animal pollination, and most of that work is done not by managed honeybees but by wild insects whose numbers nobody counts. Honeybees are visible, movable, and easy to study, so they dominate the discussion. Wild bees, hoverflies, and beetles are none of those things. Where researchers have looked carefully, they have usually found the wild insects doing more of the pollinating than the hives brought in for the purpose, and doing it in weather the honeybees will not fly in.
According to the passage, honeybees dominate the discussion of pollination because they are
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Correct answer to question 45 (Paragraph Comprehension): visible, movable, and easy to study
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The passage lists those three qualities in order. The second and third choices state the opposite of what it reports about wild insects.
Updated: November 2026
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