Biologist Abbigail Merrill and colleagues conducted a study of how butterfly color and weather conditions relate to butterfly behavior, which wouldn’t have been possible without data gathered by students and other amateur science enthusiasts in the community. Considering over three years’ worth of data, the researchers found that orange butterflies were observed in the evening more often than any other butterflies, and that butterflies tended to prefer orange and red flowers on cloudy days and multicolor flowers on partly cloudy days.
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mediumAccording to the text, which factors seemed to be linked to the behavior of butterflies in Abbigail Merrill and colleagues’ study?
A
Weather conditions but not butterfly color
B
Both butterfly color and weather conditions
C
Neither butterfly color nor weather conditions
D
Butterfly color but not weather conditions