You Are Working on a Research Project to Study Insects

Multiple Choice

You are working on a research project to study insects in a tropical rainforest.You have collected some larvae from a species of interest and brought them back to lab.Within a few days of rearing them,you notice that many have been consumed from the inside out and are dead.Upon closer inspection you find that there is another species of insect larvae present.Speculate how this could have happened.

A) The larvae cannibalized one another
B) The larvae were attacked by a predatory insect
C) It appears that you misidentified some of the larvae
D) The larvae were apparently host of a parasitoid fly or wasp