Read the following scenarios. Then explain how natural selection will occur in each. Include the four principles of natural selection (overproduction of offspring, adaptation, variation, and descent with
modification) as well as what condition(s) drive natural selection,
1. Some worms eat at night (meaning they are nocturnal) and some
worms eat during the day (meaning they are diurnal.) Most birds
eat only during the day, so they are only eating diurnal worms, due
to the fact that the nocturnal worms are burrowing during this time.
Each spring when the worms reproduce about 500 offspring are
born but only 100 of them live long enough to reproduce
themselves,

Monarch butterflies have brightly colored orange wings with black patterns on them, making them easily visible to birds that eat butterflies and moths, yet birds rarely eat the monarchs. likewise, the monarch caterpillars are brightly striped yellow and white and black, and they also are rarely eaten by birds, although some wasps will attack them and feed them to their young. what can be inferred from these observations? monarchs must threaten and attack birds, but not wasps. monarchs have a way of discouraging bird predation that does not involve hiding. monarchs’ wings are so colorful that most birds must find them difficult to eat. monarchs lay more eggs than other less conspicuous butterflies.