When mercury-vapor streetlights are used in areas inhabited by insect-eating bats, the bats feed almost exclusively around the lights, because the lights attract flying insects. In Greenville, the mercury-vapor streetlights are about to be replaced with energy-saving sodium streetlights, which do not attract insects. This change is likely to result in a drop in the population of insect-eating bats in Greenville, since ___________________________________
Which of the following most logically completes the argument below?
(A) the bats do not begin to hunt until after sundown
(B) the bats are unlikely to feed on insects that do not fly
(C) the highway department will be able to replace mercury-vapor streetlights with sodium streetlights within a relatively short time and without disrupting the continuity of lighting at the locations of the streetlights
(D) in the absence of local concentrations of the flying insects on which bats teed, the bats expend much more energy on hunting for food, requiring much larger quantities of insects to sustain each bat
(E) bats use echolocation to catch insects and therefore gain no advantage from the fact that insects flying in the vicinity of streetlights are visible at night
OA:D
Source: OG Verbal 2016,CR Qs.50
@Verbal Experts - although I got this one, I'd like to know that why EXACTLY option B is wrong ?
IMO, what option B says is either IRRELEVANT or out of scope to what we're looking for because we're NOT concerned with whether bats eat only flying insects or non-flying insects as well.
Correct me please if wrong!
Which of the following most logically completes the argument below?
(A) the bats do not begin to hunt until after sundown
(B) the bats are unlikely to feed on insects that do not fly
(C) the highway department will be able to replace mercury-vapor streetlights with sodium streetlights within a relatively short time and without disrupting the continuity of lighting at the locations of the streetlights
(D) in the absence of local concentrations of the flying insects on which bats teed, the bats expend much more energy on hunting for food, requiring much larger quantities of insects to sustain each bat
(E) bats use echolocation to catch insects and therefore gain no advantage from the fact that insects flying in the vicinity of streetlights are visible at night
OA:D
Source: OG Verbal 2016,CR Qs.50
@Verbal Experts - although I got this one, I'd like to know that why EXACTLY option B is wrong ?
IMO, what option B says is either IRRELEVANT or out of scope to what we're looking for because we're NOT concerned with whether bats eat only flying insects or non-flying insects as well.
Correct me please if wrong!
